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- 2012
- TV-14
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 46 m
- 2012
- TV-14
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 46 m
Summary Alex Gibney examines the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican.
Directed By: Alex Gibney
Written By: Alex Gibney
- 2012
- TV-14
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 46 m
- 2012
- TV-14
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 46 m
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
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Summary Alex Gibney examines the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican.
Directed By: Alex Gibney
Written By: Alex Gibney
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Given the grievousness of their sins, one wonders why the church continues to shelter them. Might it not be more appropriate to excommunicate them, and refer them to the attention of the civil authorities?
Mea Maxima Culpa is not gentle about placing blame on a structure that elevates priests above the rest of mankind and prioritizes maintaining an appearance of pious perfection over addressing some grievous wrongs committed.
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It may look like a documentary but Gibney's film is a horror film in every sense. Essential, uncomfortable viewing.
Silence might be the most perfect expression of scorn, as the saying goes, but like Edvard Munch's "The Scream," you don't have to hear it to get the horror.
A powerful, necessary contribution to a chilling body of reportage that, one senses by film's end, has just begun to take stock of the human costs of a monstrous conspiracy.
Alex Gibney's latest lacks a certain cinematic depth, but that doesn't take away from its admirable reporting.
Mea Maxima Culpa only gets messier the more it tries to iris out to a larger indictment. The central tragedy ends up diluted to a fault.
Production Company
Jigsaw Productions,
Wider Film Projects,
Below The Radar Entertainment,
HBO Documentary Films,
Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
Release Date Nov 16, 2012
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating TV-14
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Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
London Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
