New Film Probes Complicity in Priest's Abuse
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Deliver Us from Evil is a documentary that explores the years of abuse perpetrated by Father Oliver O'Grady on dozens of victims.
The film also turns a harsh spotlight on Cardinal Roger Mahony, who supervised O'Grady as he was transferred from one parish to the next. Cardinal Mahoney spent years fighting efforts to obtain records on two unidentified priests.
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