Product Details

• Actors: Narrator (English version): Jason Berry, Narrator (Spanish version): Carmen Aristegui
• Directors: Jason Berry
• Format: NTSC, Widescreen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Vows Of Silence
• DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Run Time: 61 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001GMZGMI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,680 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Vows Of Silence: El Legionario de Cristo" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trailer for Vows Of Silence, February 4, 2009

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Paul Dilosa - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vows Of Silence: El Legionario de Cristo (DVD)

Length:: 2:45 Mins

This is a trailer for "Vows Of Silence," based on the book Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marcial Maciel, the Priest who got away with Abuse, February 9, 2009

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Paul Lennon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vows Of Silence: El Legionario de Cristo (DVD)

At this very moment the Catholic media is in a feeding frenzy with news that Fr. Maciel had a female lover and had at least one child now in her 20s. This recent revelation made by the Legionaries of Christ has led many to re-examine the accusations of sexual abuse of his seminarians previously brought against Fr. Maciel. The DVD, updating the story told by Renner and Berry in their investigative report, Vows of Silence, tells the story of these accusations; it personalizes the accusations by interviewing the survivors, describes the controling atmosphere which facilitated such abuse, and it explains the tedious process they have gone through for years to have their case heard by the highest authorities in the Catholic Church. Benedict XVI finally censored Maciel in May 2005; but was it enough and why did it take so long, and why did the Vatican say so little about the survivors and try to save the perpetrator's work, the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi?

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vows of Silence, March 23, 2009

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Son (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vows Of Silence: El Legionario de Cristo (DVD)

For many years the victims of Father Maciel sought justice only to find discredit, harassment, intimidation, embarrassment. Here is some testimony of the upsetting abuse suffered by many by someone they trusted and even loved. The manipulations of very powerful father Maciel and many in the Catholic Church whose main concerns were increasing their wealth and influence not the well being of idealistic, trusting, well intentioned young men. The evidence of the cult-like brainwashing of many. As one of the victims says "it is difficult to know where madness ends and evil begins".