{"id":68299,"date":"2004-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-lecturers-film-on-abuse-cover-up-in-catholic-church-wins-coveted-cine-golden-eagle-award\/"},"modified":"2004-12-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T00:00:00","slug":"uri-lecturers-film-on-abuse-cover-up-in-catholic-church-wins-coveted-cine-golden-eagle-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/12\/uri-lecturers-film-on-abuse-cover-up-in-catholic-church-wins-coveted-cine-golden-eagle-award\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 lecturer\u2019s film on abuse cover-up in Catholic Church wins coveted CINE Golden Eagle Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. –December 31, 2004–Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-Up in the Catholic Church will premiere at the Coolidge Movie Theater, Brookline, Mass. on Monday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The hour-long documentary was written, directed and produced by Warren, R.I. resident Mary Healey-Conlon, now a lecturer in communications and film studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站. She has just been notified that she has won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. Prior recipients include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Ken Burns.<\/p>\n


\nMotivated by abuse victims whose stories were being rejected and whose motives were being questioned, the independent filmmaker picked up her camera in 1999 and began filming. <\/p>\n


\nFive years and $180,000 of personal debt later, Healey-Conlon finished editing the documentary last June. Holy Water-Gate has been sold to television channels in Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, and Denmark. Negotiations are underway for French, German, and U.S. broadcasts. <\/p>\n


\nOne of the first images in Healey-Conlon\u2019s documentary is a photo of her grandfather, Jim Healey, receiving a blessing, as he became one of the first ordained deacons in the Catholic Church in Rhode Island. Healey was a communicant of St. Matthews Church in Cranston where Father James Silva was pastor.<\/p>\n


\n Silva, Rhode Islanders would only learn years later, was sexually abusing children. The Diocese of Providence transferred the priest to 12 different parishes during the next 16 years where the pattern of abuse continued.<\/p>\n


\nHoly Water-Gate extends beyond the 49 priests, seven religious order priests, and one nun accused of sexual abuse in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n


\nSilva, of course, was not an isolated case. A study of the abuse, authorized and paid for by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The results, which were released earlier this year, present a more complete picture. The study showed that from 1950 to 2002 there were allegations of sexual abuse against 4,392 priests that were not withdrawn or known to be false. There were 10,667 victims.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cEven the John Jay questionnaire doesn\u2019t capture all of the abuse,\u201d says Healey-Conlon. \u201cIt was a self-reporting survey sent to each dioceses and since it wasn\u2019t mandatory, some dioceses refused.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHoly Water-Gate examines the scandal with interviews of victims, perpetrators and church officials.<\/p>\n


\nUsing images of white robed altar boys with their hands clasped, Healey-Conlon introduces viewers to a priest named John Bambrick, who, as an adolescent was molested by a priest who began his abuse by holding young Bambrick\u2019s hand as they rode in a car. As a priest Bambrick was later charged by the church for speaking out about the abuse he suffered.<\/p>\n


\nFather William C., a perpetrator, had a long record of abuse. In the documentary, Father C. says after 17 years of therapy and reassignments to six different parishes, the last assignment to head youth programs, he realized he posed a great risk and voluntarily left the priesthood. <\/p>\n


\nTwo years ago, he was heading an internet company and claimed to be earning $250,000 annually, the 溏心vlog免费B站 lecturer reports.<\/p>\n


\nHow did all of the abuse and the subsequent cover-up happen? Healey-Conlon doesn\u2019t provide easy answers but chooses, instead she says, to let the audience grapple with the issues.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a product of denial\u2026learning about what we don\u2019t want to know about,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s also about putting the protection of priests ahead of the protection of children.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nConlon says the media failed in its job as a watchdog. \u201cThey were reluctant to cover stories of abuse,\u201d she says. From 1980 to 1989, only 26 articles about the abuse and the subsequent cover up appeared in major U.S. newspapers. The newspapers\u2019 religion reporter wrote most of those articles, not the crime beat reporter.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWithout The Boston Globe gaining access to the records in 2002 we would never have known the scope and the scale of the abuse,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n


\nOnly 180 priests of the 4,000-plus priests accused of sexual abuse have been convicted, according to Conlon. \u201cAnd not one of the bishops,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n


\nTickets for the premiere are $6 and can be purchased online in advance at www.coolidge.org, click on events, then purchase tickets.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. –December 31, 2004–Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-Up in the Catholic Church will premiere at the Coolidge Movie Theater, Brookline, Mass. on Monday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The hour-long documentary was written, directed and produced by Warren, R.I. resident Mary Healey-Conlon, now a lecturer in communications and film studies at the University of Rhode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}