Correction. Now that I'm paying more attention to the French, I should say that most of the people "speaking" in the documentary in sign language are students who were formerly abused by the priests, not necessarily monks who had taken a vow of silence. The students were deaf, you see, and the priests thought that speaking only in sign language they'd never be able to convince anyone what had happened to them.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > Watching this documentary tonight, in French although the original was > in English. Very powerful, and very disturbing. It's about sexual abuse > within the Catholic Church, told beautifully and heart-breakingly. The > film won three Primetime Emmy awards, and won top honors at the British > Film Institute Awards and the Irish Film and Television Awards. > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2111478/reference > > > Worse than the sexual abuse is the conspiracy of silence that strove to > hide it. Much of the film is "narrated" by monks who have taken a vow of > silence. Their superiors thought that they were "safe," and that their > vows would keep them silent. They forgot sign language. >
