{"id":68717,"date":"2005-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/showtime-to-broadcast-holy-water-gate-uri-lecturers-documentary-airs-may-19-25-27\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T00:00:00","slug":"showtime-to-broadcast-holy-water-gate-uri-lecturers-documentary-airs-may-19-25-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/05\/showtime-to-broadcast-holy-water-gate-uri-lecturers-documentary-airs-may-19-25-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime to broadcast Holy Water-Gate — 溏心vlog免费B站 lecturer\u2019s documentary airs May 19, 25, 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. –May 5, 2005 \u2013 Showtime, a leading television network providing cable programming that includes original series and movies along with current Hollywood fare, has acquired Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-Up in the Catholic Church. The 56-minute documentary will be aired May 19 at 10 p.m., May 25 at 10:10 p.m., and May 27 at 10:15 p.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe documentary was written, directed and produced by Warren, R.I. resident Mary Healey-Conlon, a lecturer in communications and film studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tHoly Water-Gate, which examines the Catholic Church\u2019s sexual abuse scandal and the fallout of a decades-long cover-up to conceal the truth, was purchased as a companion program to the SHOWTIME original picture \u201cOur Fathers\u201d starring Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy and Ted Danson.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe documentary was awarded a CINE Golden Eagle in investigative journalism. Prior CINE recipients include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Ken Burns. <\/p>\n


\n\tMotivated 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


\n\tFive years and $180,000 of personal debt later, Healey-Conlon finished editing the documentary last June. Holy Water-Gate has been broadcast in Canada, Australia, Spain, and Switzerland. It is slated to screen in Denmark. <\/p>\n


\n \tOne 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\tSilva, 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


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


\n\tSilva, 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. \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


\n\tHoly Water-Gate examines the scandal with interviews of victims, perpetrators and church officials. Using 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


\n\tFather 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. Two 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


\n\tHow 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\t\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 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. –May 5, 2005 \u2013 Showtime, a leading television network providing cable programming that includes original series and movies along with current Hollywood fare, has acquired Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-Up in the Catholic Church. The 56-minute documentary will be aired May 19 at 10 p.m., May 25 at 10:10 p.m., and May 27 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-68717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717","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=68717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}