The SPOTLIGHT on crimes against children
by Fr Shay Cullen
There is time when the truth has to be revealed, when the secrecy of crimes can no longer be contained, denied and when the guilty must be held to account. History shows that secrecy and cover up keeps that day of reckoning at bay but one day the truth will come out.
That is the story of Spotlight, a film about the Spotlight team of investigative reporters at the Boston Globe newspaper that exposed the sex crimes against children by priests and the church cover up of the crimes.
It is an award winning film that will shine in the Oscars this year for the pure strength of its powerful and honest story-telling of a most painful subject in the Catholic Church.
This truth-telling film has won the prestigious and coveted Catholic SIGNIS Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival.
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