Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church

The Boston Globe investigation is the subject of an Oscar nominated film, here's how the original story came to be.

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[lukelbd_]

Man thay NAILED the casting for this film.

[leetaodana]

I was an alter boy. A priest tried to make me pull down my pants in a locked room in the basement of the church. I wouldn't do it. He's probably dead now.

[shanaleah]

When i watched the movie at the end they showed a list of all the areas where they have a
Accused priest and it was basically the whole world

[HayastAnFedayi]

The actors did an amazing job portraying the real characters, especially Mark Rufalo

[obadiahscave]

I'm over 50 years old, I've seen this same reoccurring issue with the Catholic Church, over and over since I was a kid...

[Josereyes]

Thanks to the great journalism of the Boston Globe. Child Sexual abuse needs to end and priests need to pay the consequences of their evil crimes against children.

[shanaleah]

Wow they did a good job finding look a likes for the movie

[elijahvigil]

When I saw the movie, I was devastated when I learned at the end that a few of the cities listed where priests were busted, just so happened to be places I've lived in when I was a kid....

[Troubleshooter]

Robbie and Mike and Co. did far more than yeoman's service in researching and reporting that story, and they deserve big-time kudos for their work. BRAVO and BRAVA!

[janishani]

Forever taking my hat off for this team. Major gratitude to all of you. All the best blessing your lives.

As to every single Church related people knowing any of this and having even a nail of contribution for these acts to perpetuate you already are the first on the line to the deep hell - do not doubt it - and may you never come back to repeat the cycle.

[tannermclaughlin]

The fact that people can know this is happening and still be Catholic is disgusting

[bsktballman]

Alter boys?!?!?!? The move said sick leave!! How much worse was this?

[sharongygi]

This sure took a long time to get out. It is now September 2018 and this
occurred at least two years ago, but the newspaper evidently didn’t go far enough
Until the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report.

[elizabethfreer]

I was raised in an intense devotion to Catholicism..I was adopted from a catholic orphanage I n Quebec. My brother at age 3 was adopted at the same time same place. I learned that my brother was emotionally and sexually abused by age 3 he was a tormented child he lived a tormented life died at 41 from a aids related to drug abuse..What has been done to hundreds of children cannot be justified explained or rationalized..the birth of any child is god placing a crown on those who created that child..in the name of god the Catholic Church allowed those lives to be desecrated!

[richardsimms]

I was very, very embarrassed in the 1980’s and 1990’s to tell anyone that I was a Catholic with a Catholic early school and high school education. I gave up Catholicism and will never return to such an undemocratic and controlling organization full of hypocrites.
RS. Canada

[mikegallant]

Geoghan got what he deserved when someone killed him in prison.

[feliciabosch]

And this abusive behaviour still continues and people are to afraid speak up why these priest are supposed to care for the folk it's absolutely devilish

[kennyinliverpool]

Wow ... so depressing, ... but it was true, and the truth has to be known

[gointruth]

Think about that which Jesus prophesied about Catholic priests, even before there were such priests...

“Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” – (Matthew 7: 15-16) –

“Do not call any man on earth ‘father’; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.” – (Matthew 23: 9-10) –

“There is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered, nothing hidden that will not be made known. You may take it, then, that everything you said in the dark will be heard in broad daylight, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the house tops.” – (Luke 12: 2-3) –

[thetruthandthewaypsalm]

And to think that the pope covers this... The good old Vatican...