Review of Deliver Us from Evil (1979) by Dimity P — 01 Mar 2013

A pretty horrifying doc. After watching something like this, anybody who still says there's no such thing as evil is really kidding themselves.

I don't know what's more disgusting or disturbing, Father Oliver O'Grady or the leaders within the Catholic Church who allowed him to bounce from parish to parish, knowing full-well the things he had done. It's angering to listen to O'Grady speak because, like others have pointed out, you can tell he really has no comprehension of what he's done to his victims' and their respective families. He even borders on facetious in some parts of his interviews. It's as if he thinks he merely ran over their family dog and come back, shake hands with people, and have everything be alright. When people think of evil, most of the time it's some mass-murderer in history that's the prime example. This Father O'Grady is just as repugnant of a human being as any we've seen and what makes it even worse is he doesn't even really know it.

This film basically highlights everything that I think is wrong with the Catholic Church. From the religious rituals and requirements that have no basis in Scripture (priests having to be celibate being one of them), to the God-like view that parishioners have of the church's leaders... all of it just spells "trouble".