Cast

Alex Gibney, Terry Kohut, Gary Smith

Film description

Mea Maxima Culpa is an HBO documentary that exposes the dark secrets of the Catholic clergy through interviews with adults who, as children, were sexually abused by priests. The starting point for director Alex Gibney are four hearing-impaired men who were the first in America to break the conspiracy of silence and publicly  reveal the name of the  priest who had molested them. The film crew  makes its way through Wisconsin, visits Ireland’s monasteries, and interviews the highest Vatican authorities, to conduct its own investigation  into the molestation, by priests, of over 200 hearing-impaired children who had been under the guardianship of the Catholic Church.