Spotlight, which recounts the battle of reporters on the
Boston Globe in 2000-2002 to expose a decades-long child abuse scandal
in one of the world’s richest and most powerful Catholic dioceses, could
not be more topical.
Only a few days ago Peter Saunders, a clerical sexual
abuse survivor who has been highly critical of the Vatican’s response to
recent scandals, was forced to take a ‘leave of absence’ from the
Vatican’s abuse commission.