The Catholic Church’s pedophilic sex scandals are given an explosive, controversial look with this 1960s-set drama based on a true story about Legion of Christ founder and child abuser Father Marcial Marcial. Julian, an innocent and impressionable 13-year-old, is sent to a seminary to train for the priesthood. He is immediately immersed in this new world of religious training with the over-riding philosophy being, not so much the love of Christ, but the complete obedience to authority.

 

The seminary, with its coterie of older priests beset with sexual tension and ever-so tempted by its young students is lorded over by the handsome and charismatic Father Angel de la Cruz. When the seemingly kindly pastor invites the attractive boy to leave the dormitory to stay at his home to continue his “training,” he feels honored, but soon realizes there is a price: his complete psychological and inevitably, physical surrender to the older man. ​

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Verses I believe used against innocent underage boys in manipulating them onto there knees or bed.

• Samuel 15:22

  "And Samuel said, 'Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams'" 

• Exodus 19:5

  "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession" 

• Deuteronomy 11:1

  "Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always

• Romans 5:19

  "For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous" 

• Hebrews 5:9

  "And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him" 

• John 14:23

  "Jesus states that loving him means obeying his teachings"