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- The investigation of the scandal by The Boston Globe was titled "Spotlight Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church". Its in-depth reporting was the central subject of Tom McCarthy 's film Spotlight in 2015, which won two Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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Nov 20, 2015 · Spotlight: Directed by Tom McCarthy. With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Tom McCarthy
- 2015-11-20
On November 9, 2015, a review in the Catholic News Service called the film a "generally accurate chronicle" of the Boston scandal, but objected to some of the portrayals and the film's view of the Church.
Directed by Todd McCarthy from a script by McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight is about the Boston Globe investigative reporting team that exposed the widespread systemic sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.
In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight.
Nov 3, 2015 · For three decades, the Catholic Church was negligent of former priest John J. Geoghan’s compulsive sexual abuse of children, The Boston Globe reported.
Nov 6, 2022 · The story is loosely based on the real Catholic Archdiocese of Boston abuse scandal that received widespread attention in 2002, when The Boston Globe published the results of an...
Nov 4, 2015 · How does the Catholic Church feel about the Spotlight movie revisiting the abuse scandal? Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, who took over in 2003 after disgraced Cardinal Bernard F. Law stepped down, says that the movie depicts "a very painful time" in the history of the church, when a series of reports forced the church "to deal with what was ...
