This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Boring

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I've been living on this loony planet long enough to be easily shocked or disgusted. But watching this lesson in immorality ,expertly performed by a merry band of man of cloth, I shudder at the state of humankind. A priest who seems to be a perfect example of a sociopath, manages to fulfill all of his sick fantasies on children as young as 9 months, with a generous help of the church brethren. Being a religious person myself, albeit not Catholic, I am stunned with the arrogance of the clergy. Because their cassocks give them such special powers, they convinced themselves that any attack upon their actions is unwarranted. How can any real Christian live without any doubt and self questioning? Well, real Christian can not. But they can, God help them.

Extraordinarily disturbing and affecting examination of the case of a Catholic priest who sexually abused numerous children, and the fact the Church knew, and did nothing about it. The film expands to examine the larger issue of the Church's constantly covering-up abuse by priests on a huge scale. Masterfully directed, this hits home emotionally, as victims and their parents tell their stories, while at the same time we get to know the perpetrator – who is clearly disconnected from reality and mentally ill (he does not deny the abuse, but seems to grossly misunderstand its seriousness), making those above him who covered his activities seem in many ways more culpable and hateful than this clearly disturbed individual - not that he gets off lightly. At the same time, it's not a purely emotional exercise, with some fascinating experts, especially one priest who is an expert in Church history and law examining how and why things have devolved to this awful state of affairs, where the Church seems to be consciously putting its own image ahead of the safety of children. Not an easy film to watch, but a deeply powerful, angering and upsetting one.

Harboring Impure Thoughts is a sin in the mores of the Catholic Church. If one is attracted to a person sexually, a man, a woman, at whatever age, one also associates that quality with the object of even the most conventional Catholic marriage. So to a man who from the start of his sexual growth is trained as a Catholic priest, what's the difference between an object of pure lust and an object of affection? The danger, in turn, is not merely a danger to his own self but a danger to those objects of lust and affection of his. What's more, religion is extremely important to many people in all cultures. These people have children, who are raised with an obedient, conventional moral code that links inscrutability with their elders, whose trust is very easy for a neighborhood priest, their nearest connection with God, to acquire.Watching Amy Berg's effective documentary Deliver Us from Evil is a compelling encounter. Her interview cases betray to the camera virtually insufferable stratums of grief, and its audience goes home feeling both bewilderment and anger. There is an integral interview subject who is an Irish Catholic priest who is undeterred by where Catholic orthodoxy has led his decisions to rape and molest 25 children who looked up to him, saw him as a father, and is living out his days in the Irish countryside. If any citizen otherwise had committed the same crime, they would be playing the role of the child to a much bigger, stronger rapist for decades. What is it about this ideology that causes people all over the world to treat related matters with superiority over everyone else? I suppose it is the centuries of tradition that is reassuring to society, even while these families are burdened with crippling depths of shame for as long as they last. The weight of their shame is directly related to that of the trust they put into their victimizers.The film is not an indictment of people who practice the Catholic faith. Not by any means. It is a buoy for the devoutly faithful subjects surrounding Father Oliver O'Grady, who in the 1970s and '80s committed his crimes only to spend a mere seven years in prison and still keep his job, a voice and a vent for them. I know I haven't said much about the film itself, but the fact that I would rather talk about what the film made me think about should speak of the value of seeing it.

As a former Catholic who has since become a staunch atheist, I watched Amy Berg's chilling documentary, 'Deliver Us From Evil' with simmering anger and rage--not just at the hideous corruption of a cynical Church hierarchy but at the smugness and utter lack of remorse exhibited by the former "Father" Oliver O'Grady, a true and very dangerous psychopath. And to think that his heinous crimes have been repeated by hundreds of his depraved brethren of the cloth over many decades--and similarly covered up with the usual catastrophic results. If 'Deliver Us From Evil' doesn't put you off from Catholicism and organized religion in general, nothing will.