“spotlight” Needed on Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Bay Area

By Tom Stier
San Francisco Chronicle
October 29, 2015

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Spotlight-needed-on-clergy-sexual-abuse-in-6599458.php

The formidable cast of "Spotlight" includes, from left, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery and Brian d'Arcy. The film is one of the opening night movies of the Mill Valley Film Festival. CREDIT: Open Road Films

The movie “Spotlight,” which opens Nov. 6, tells the story of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team’s reporting during 2001 and 2002 on the clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston and its cover-up by Cardinal Bernard Law. For many, this movie will draw unwanted publicity to the Catholic Church but I, a former Catholic parish priest, welcome the attention. I hope this movie shines the spotlight on the Catholic Church in Oakland and San Francisco so the full extent of abuse and cover-up right here in the Bay Area may be known.