Program Four Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins The Jew in the Lotus Diary of a City Priest

Tonight's program focuses on faith-based activism: the efforts of a priest to shut down goverment-sponsored torture, a group of rabbis who talk spiritual survival with the Dalai Lama, and maverick father trying to make a difference in the inner city.

Father Roy focuses on a remarkable Catholic priest who has devoted years of his life working to close down The Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation in Fort Benning, Georgia. Formerly known as the U.S. Army School of the Americas, this facility trains the most notorious human rights abusers in Latin America, teaching torture and counterinsurgency tactics which are then used to quash peasant rebellions. (Robert Richter, 1997; 60 mins.)

The Jew in the Lotus documents the extraordinary odyssey of eight rabbis. Invited by the Dalai Lama, they travel to India to meet the spiritual leader and compare lessons of spiritual survival. (Laurel Chitel, Lucia Small, 1998; 60 mins.)

In the dramatized Diary of a City Priest actor David Morse plays Father John McNamee, a real-life maverick who watches over an inner-city Philadelphia parish, facing moral quandaries and social challenges as he struggles to rescue lost souls. (Eugene Martin, 2000; 60 mins.)