The problem with making a documentary series for an international audience is how to explain the story without explaining the intricate history of criminals, money laundering and the Vatican church. In Italy, the Vatican is more powerful than either political party is in the U. S. Its ties with money laundering go back to Hitler, and its ability to influence world politics is unfathomable to those of us who believe we live in a democracy.
Is it a tedious story? Yes. Is it something every American Catholic should see? Hell, yes.
As the U. S. SCOTUS acts as the Vatican's agent in removing the rights of women, as parishes all over the world are having to pay the victims of child molestation by priests, as U. S. Bishops are urging the refusal of communion to the American president who was duly elected, is it so hard to believe it would cover up the kidnapping and murder of a girl?
It isn't fiction. It's horrible,