UNITED STATES
Tribune-Democrat
The movie “Spotlight” was awarded an Oscar for the best motion picture of 2016, and it more than deserves such recognition. It brings a new level of attention to this outstanding film and the problems it addresses, especially the abuse of authority in the Roman Catholic Church.
It is a wake-up call for people in the United States and in countries around the world to recognize the egregious damage done to children and deal with the epidemic, the pandemic really, that is childhood sexual abuse.
“Spotlight” concerns heinous crimes of sexual abuse perpetrated upon innocent children by rogue priests in a powerful religious denomination while it addresses one institution’s corruption played out in Massachusetts by Cardinal Bernard Law, the archbishop of Boston.
Law covered up and protected such priests while supposedly “saving the church from scandal.”
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