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A Tribute to Michael Sullivan
10m 40s
He was one of the guiding figures of FRONTLINE for more than two decades.
FRONTLINE explores and illuminates the critical issues of our times - from business and health to social issues, politics and war.
Video description: Tom Curran and reporter Mark Trahant examine a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and church workers in Alaska. The Silence shows how the isolation of the villages and the absolute authority of the church over the Native population created an atmosphere where molestation could go unchecked and unreported.
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