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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
Holy Water-Gate, to be re-released, televised
Award-winning film details Catholic Church abuse cover-up
November, 15, 2010 - Five years after its initial U.S. broadcast on ShowTime, Holy Water-Gate, Abuse Cover-up in the Catholic Church, is being re-released and will be televised on multiple dates on The Documentary Channel, beginning the Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend. (See schedule below).
The hour-long documentary was written, directed,
and produced by Mary
Healey (Jamiel), assistant professor of communication studies/film media at
the University of Rhode Island. Even though the film
is a few years old, the comprehensive investigative documentary remains timely
and relevant. Motivated
by abuse victims whose stories were being rejected and whose motive were being
questioned, the independent filmmaker picked up her camera in 1999 and began
filming.
One of the first images
in Healey's film is of her grandfather, Jim Healey, receiving a blessing from
Father James Silva as one of the first ordained deacons in the Catholic Church
in Rhode Island. Rhode Islanders were only learn years later that Silva, then
pastor of St. Matthews Church in Cranston, was sexually abusing children. The
Diocese of Providence transferred the priest to 12 different parishes during
the next 16 years where the pattern of abuse continued. Healey
took her camera far beyond Rhode Island, examining the scandal with interviews
with victims, perpetrators, and church officials from Rome to
Chicago. The film broadcast in
Spain, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark and has been translated into
Spanish, German, Italian and Danish.
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You
can watch selections from the film here: HOLY
WATER-GATE, Abuse Cover-up in the Catholic Church "In
her award-winning investigative documentary, Holy Water-Gate, Abuse
Cover-up in the Catholic Church, Mary Healey (Jamiel) skillfully
details the methods and mechanisms the Church used to conceal abuse of
children by priests for decades. Holy Water-Gate continues to offer
the most comprehensive investigation on the topic to date. Five years
after its initial broadcast in the United States on ShowTime, Holy
Water-Gate is being re-released on The Documentary Channel and will
have multiple prime time broadcasts. Involves mary healey jamiel, Ned Miller, Jeff Hellyer and Louise
Rosen. What Austria's
Die Presse says
about ORF's 2010 broadcast of Holy Water-Gate: "While many documentaries are bought, this
film is a prime example of public-service television, which has only one
single problem: the late broadcast." The Boston
Pheonix: "In just under an hour,
Healey offers a crash course in the historical, legal, religious, and cultural
aspects of the Church's scandal. But the film never feels superficial. We are,
as one survivor says, "learning about what we don't want to learn about," and
through that process, gaining a necessary "knowledge of
evil." The Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia) "This very personal
tale by American filmmaker Mary Healey peels away the protective shell of a
damaged church. Along the way, it shows how the rest of society, in particular
the media, is almost as culpable for averting its eyes and ears for so
long." Viewer
comments about Holy Water-Gate
"Astonishing documentary. The most important video on this saga I've seen
. I know this video is a
few years old .... yet it is STILL a current news story [April
2010]." "With swift, deft
scalpel strokes, Holy Watergate lays bare hypocrisy and institutionalized
abuse in the Catholic Church. Mary Healey's cool, skillful exposure of child
sexual predation and of the human anguish inflicted by pedophile priests makes
you tremble with outrage. The Church's reflex is to speak honeyed words, then
use every corporate dirty trick to intimidate, buy off, and silence the
victims. Its sympathy lies with the predatory priests, not their victims; its
ancient priorities are (like any multinational) to preserve its power and
influence at all costs. The film shows this graphically, but also that humble,
decent priests still do Christ's work at grassroots level, and that some even
risk everything to fight the snakes in their hierarchy." "'Holy Water-Gate'
tells it like it was and like it is. There is no watering down of facts and no
cosmetic cover-up of the details of what happened to four out of the thousands
of boys now grown men who were sexually abused across this country by priests
through grooming and deceptive techniques to entice them into a massacre of
their innocence and life-long psychological trauma to say nothing of the
rupture of their spiritual connection to God." Mary Healey Jamiel
http://vimeo.com/16768025
http://vimeo.com/16768025
Sunday, NOVEMBER 28,
8PM (WITH REPEAT FOR PACIFIC TIME)
Sunday, NOVEMBER 28, 11
PM
Mon, Dec 6, 2010 09:30 PM with repeat Dec 7, 2010 12:30:00
AM
Thu, Dec 16, 2010 06:30:PM
Fri, Dec 31, 2010 02:00 AM
Tue,
Jan 11, 2011 06:30 PM
Sun, Jan 30, 2011 09:30: PM with repeat Mon,
Jan 31, 2011 12:30 AM"
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