The 2006 documentary film Deliver Us From Evil was nominated for an Academy Award. It purported to catalog the abuse of disgraced Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady. Without even seeing the actual film, however, one can see that the producers are not forthcoming and honest with their audience.

In the trailer for the film, the following claim is made:

The trailer claims that "there have been over 100,000 victims of clergy sexual abuse in the United States." However, the heralded 2004 John Jay study, the most comprehensive study ever done on the issue of Catholic priest abuse in the United States, found that only one tenth of that number, 10,667, had actually made allegations of abuse. And the study included all accusations going back to 1950, over a half a century ago.

(By the way, the Jay study also reported that there were less than 110,000 men who have served as Catholic priests in the same time period. For the film's outrageous claim to be true, there would be one victim for nearly every priest who has served.)

The actions by Oliver O'Grady were nothing short of atrocious and reprehensible, and the harm he wrecked upon his victims is immeasurable. But such a glaring and egregious falsehood in the trailer of the film does not bode well for the honesty of the film itself. It only leads one to believe that a bigoted anti-Catholic agenda is in play at the hands of the film's producers.