Pray for Our Sinners

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Director Sinead O’Shea returns to her hometown, Navan, to expose abuse in Catholic institutions. Her documentary tells a story of victims of abuse by teachers and nuns in the 1960s and 1970s, when no one dared to question the authority of the Church. The film gives voice to the pupils of former teachers for whom beating and humiliation was the only known to them method of work with young people, and to teenage mothers who ended up in the Magdalene nuns’ laundries. O’Shea also remembers those who had the courage to defy the system by supporting the most disadvantaged.