UNITED STATES
Daily Times
By Phil Heron, Delaware County Daily Times
POSTED: 11/30/15
I saw the movie ‘Spotlight’ Saturday night.
If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a journalism movie. More specifically, a newspaper movie. It tells the story of how a team of reporters at the Boston Globe tackled the massive issue of abuse by priests in the Boston Archdiocese.
The movie made me proud of what I do. It also made me incredibly sad.
This is not a easy movie to watch, especially if you are Catholic. That would include me, a former altar boy. It does not paint the church – in particular the leaders of the Boston Archdiocese, in an especially good light.
I know a little bit about that. I have written at length about the same situation here in the Philadelphia archdiocese. In fact, Monsignor William Lynn, the highest church official ever charged and convicted in the church handling (some would say blatant cover-up) of church abuse. He was my pastor at St. Joe’s in Downingtown. Suffice it to say much of what I wrote was not especially well-received by my fellow parishioners.
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