Not Your average Church pedophilia Scandal
A case study on what could be called the biggest crisis to ever face the Catholic Church, Deliver Us from Evil tells the story of Father Oliver O'Grady, a California parishioner who sexually abused children throughout the 1970s and '80s. Controversially, the Church knew that O'Grady had sexually abused a child within his first months but never told anyone outside of their ranks, deciding instead to move the pastor around northern California. The film is uncomfortable; there are no heartwarming voiceovers or any of the shock-and-awe tactics of a Michael Moore documentary. Instead, Deliver uses some deposition video of Catholic Church officials, and relies mostly on the words of O'Grady, three of his victims and their families. The film also deals with a current movement to reform the Church from within, but it is the scenes with the victims or perpetrator that provide the chilling juxtaposition which makes this movie so compelling.