Showing posts with label child molestation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child molestation. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

SECRETS OF THE CHURCH

We finally got to see SPOTLIGHT, the powerful Academy Award winner for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It is definitely a 'must see' starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup. What a terrific cast and I don't think it was even in town here two weeks so we had missed it!

Thank heavens the Boston Globe was brave enough under its new editor Marty Baron in 2001 to release serious investigative reporting regarding the cover up of improprieties of 6% of Boston's Priests regarding child molestation. In Boston alone there were1000 victims. Cardinal Law (Archbishop of Boston) ignored the knowledge of the guilty priests who were transferred to different parishes for over 30 years. Imagine eventually the Cardinal was not only transferred but promoted to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

It is a shocking true story whose scandals were/have been repeated world wide. Put this on your viewing list if you also have missed seeing it.