{"id":6913,"date":"2013-02-11T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2013-02-11T23:55:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:55:27","slug":"former-monks-featured-in-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/former-monks-featured-in-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Monks Featured in Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saint John&#8217;s Abbey monks Pat Wall and A.W. Richard Sipe are featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/mea-maxima-culpa\/index.html\">HBO documentary<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Mea Maxima Culpa&#8221;. The movie premiered on the HBO network on Monday, February 4, 2013. Sipe and Wall discuss clergy abuse, celibacy and coverup in the wake of an abuse crisis at St. John\u2019s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin. The movie was highly critical of several Church hierarchy, <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/news\/mea-maxima-culpa-director-alex-gibney-praises-pope-170013599.html\">including Pope Benedict XVI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A week after the movie premiered, Pope Benedict XVI resigned [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/mea-maxima-culpa-director-alex-gibney-praises-pope-benedicts-resignation\/\">More<\/a> ].<\/p>\n<p>A.W. Richard Sipe&#8217;s Web Site&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsipe.com\/index.html\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pat Wall&#8217;s Web Site&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/patrickjwall.wordpress.com\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6914\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_culpa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6914\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6914\" alt=\"sipe_culpa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_culpa-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_culpa-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_culpa.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.W. Richard Sipe<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6915\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6915\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6915\" alt=\"sipe_wall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_wall-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_wall-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sipe_wall.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Wall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saint John&#8217;s Abbey monks Pat Wall and A.W. Richard Sipe are featured in the HBO documentary\u00a0&#8220;Mea Maxima Culpa&#8221;. The movie premiered on the HBO network on Monday, February 4, 2013. Sipe and Wall discuss clergy abuse, celibacy and coverup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/former-monks-featured-in-movie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,37,156,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mea-maxima-culpa","category-patrick-wall","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-aw-richard-sipe","wp-image-borders"],"views":2166,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}