Oscar Winner's 'Explosive' Film about Abuse at St. John's to Premiere at Toronto Film Festival

By Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
August 1, 2012

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"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," a documentary about a pedophile priest at St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis will have its premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film was directed by Alex Gibney, who won an Oscar for his Iraq war documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side." It is set for wider release this fall.

The film chronicles the sexual assaults of as many as 200 deaf boys over three decades by Father Lawrence Murphy and includes testimony by some of of his victims.

It cites Pope Benedict XVI - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - as being aware of complaints against him. A release for the film described it as being "explosive."

Narrators for the film include John Slattery and Chris Cooper.

Watch the trailer below.