@article{1355987,
      recid = {1355987},
      author = {Healey-Conlon, Mary.},
      title = {Holy water-gate [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (57 min.).},
      year = {2006},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {Holy Water-Gate explores the lengths to which sexual abuse  has been systematically obscured throughout the nation. It  presents startling testimony from an admitted priest  perpetrator, church officials and victims, as well as the  story of Father John Bambrick who was himself molested by a  priest as an adolescent and continues to seek justice for  fellow victims. The victims, victims advocates, priests and  reporters who tried to reveal the situation to public view  were repeatedly blocked and/or harassed by the perpetrators  themselves and by church officials. In particular the film  examines abuse that was occurring in several areas around  the country, including Rhode Island, Illinois, Wisconsin,  New Jersey and New York and the methods and mechanisms used  to conceal this wide-spread abuse. In chilling testimony,  an admitted perpetrator priest, Father William C., recounts  his abuse of two children who reported their abuse to the  police. The report "disappeared", and no criminal charges  were made. The Church sent him for six months of therapy  and later reassigned him to six different parishes. When  stories about the sexual abuse began appearing in the  Boston Globe, the New York Times and many other newspapers,  many victims came forward with their stories and sued the  Church. It is clear that the Church put the protection of  priests ahead of the protection of children compounding the  problem for thousands of Catholic families and individual  victims.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355987},
}