The documentary is very good and based on facts, and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people such as the collaborators who have been implanted there by the old communist governments or child molesters who proliferate in this environment, having unrestricted access to children in schools and churches. They are simply moved from one chapel to another or, eventually, to houses for the elderly priests.<p>This needs to change, and, as a Polish person, I wholeheartedly welcome this documentary. I am glad that it has been made - it would never be possible if it was not for independent filmmaking.<p>It's time for the Catholic church to stop being associated with child molestation - and in order for that to happen, the child molestation must be purged from that church with all appropriate means. Otherwise, that stigma will just keep on going on.
The movie is available legally for free on youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrUvQ3W3nV4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrUvQ3W3nV4</a><p>There are English subtitles.
Not very related, but I found this excellent yet sad news story via HN search half a year back: <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs" rel="nofollow">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orph...</a><p>It's a long read but IMO was worth it.<p>It seems to be a long-running trend for Churches and similar religious organizations to do this sort of stuff.
Poland is insanely religious. I grew up in Poland and moved to US with my parents at age of 14. I became an atheist. Recently, I visited Poland, and was amazed that people my age are still mostly religious.<p>Recently, I read a story about people who took down a statue of a priest who molested children. There was an outcry and some politician had the statue put back in its place. That is just so twisted. Many people I talked to in Poland don't want to even discuss church and systematic protection of pedophiles. It makes them very uneasy but they want to ignore it i guess?
Here's another great documentary that reflects the efforts of the Catholic Church historically to not only hide the offense and move the alleged perpetrator, but would often move them back to positions where the abuse could take place again:<p>The Keepers<p><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80122179" rel="nofollow">https://www.netflix.com/title/80122179</a>
Tell sexual humans not to be sexual due to some made up non-sense myths and put them in positions of power and authority, what could possibly go wrong? They want to stop child abuse, and sure who is not for that, but how about stopping myth abuse?
Any other organization with that behavior that is not a church would already have been shut down worldwide and leadership would be in jail. I hope that believers will put pressure on the church to clean up its act.
This is an AP story: <a href="https://www.apnews.com/14f374e7c6a340e6bbf543223f968006" rel="nofollow">https://www.apnews.com/14f374e7c6a340e6bbf543223f968006</a>