I saw this last night. I recommend it highly. Really superb film that explores this troubling issue from multiple angles:
The molester priest who confesses on camera and tells his story.
The victims who are now adults and their stories, and their parents' stories.
The clergy in high places who protected these pedophiles and kept moving them from place to place. Clips from their video depositions are played and reveal the real character of these power-hungry men who drape themselves in religious garments and a false aura of being God's leader. As a former JW, you can really relate to this!
The molesting priest is clearly some sort of well functioning, charming, smart psychopath. He grins and smiles the entire time he is being interviewed. He gives the clear impression he is completely disassociated from any harm he has done. I had the impression he was almost delighted with the attention he was getting being on camera.
The victims tell their sad stories, but what was more tragic was witnessing the interviews with the parents of the victims who appear more devastated than their now grown children. At one point one of the fathers is crying and yells "I do not believe in God anymore!!!!!" while his still-believing Catholic daughter weeps.
The molesting priest was deported back to his home country of Ireland having been given an annuity pension to live on by the Catholic Church. He is free and not under the scrutiny of the authorities. He is filmed watching children play in a park. He freely admits he is turned on by kids.
The molester was constantly protected over the years by Cardinal Mahoney in Los Angeles, California, and shuttled from parish to parish as he kept sodomizing, raping children, including a nine month old infant, and in one case carried on an affair with one victim's mother. Cardinal Mahoney could not allow a scandal in his diocese if he wanted to be promoted to archbishop of Los Angeles, which he attained two years after shuttling the molesting priest to a new parish. The molester's victims number in the hundreds over his 20 year spree.
One of the priests depicted in the film is Father Tom Doyle who is a strong advocate against abuse. His career in the church is essentially ruined because of his outspokeness. He is brutally frank about the Catholic's church's problems and refuses to back down. He speaks to groups and is a victim's advocate.
One interesting fact is brought out that the current Pope Benedict who presided over committees looking into Catholic priest child abuse petitioned President George Bush for immunity from prosecution, which was granted.
The film goes into the warped sexual psychology of these men who serve as priests and is blunt in saying it is a sexualized priesthood.
Really worth seeing.