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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God is a 2012 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. The film details the first known protest against clerical sex abuse in the United States by four deaf men.
Feb 17, 2013 · Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – review. O scar-winning documentarist Alex Gibney's new film is a conspiracy thriller far more exciting and sinister than Dan Brown's The Da Vinci...
Dec 3, 2012 · The documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, is spellbinding for its crisp focus on the tragic fate of boys at St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin, who were preyed upon by school Director Fr. Lawrence Murphy, who ran the school.
- Marci A. Hamilton
Mea Maxima Culpa – which translates as “my most grievous fault” in Latin - presents a well-constructed and poignant argument, full of outrage and ample evidence, about the heinous crimes...
Nov 14, 2012 · It is calm and steady, founded largely on the testimony of Murphy's victims, who use ASL and whose words are spoken aloud by actors Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper and John Slattery. He also talks to lawyers, newspaper reporters, and two Benedictine monks who have been instrumental in running institutions for rehabilitation of abusive priests.
Nov 15, 2012 · After taking a breather from feature hardline journalism with a series of lighter docs in Catching Hell, Magic Trip and The Last Gladiator, the prolific documentarian Alex Gibney returns to the austere with Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a film that begins with the personal tale of a religious school for the deaf that became the ...
A chilling insight into systematic abuse. This lengthy, detailed and extraordinarily well-crafted film produced by HBO is a story of corruption and child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Essentially a long-form piece of high-tone investigative journalism, it’s also some kind of horror movie.
