Pope Francis’ commission on the clergy’s sexual violation of children
had a timely private screening in Rome last week of “Spotlight,” the
Oscar-nominated film about the pedophilia scandal in Boston. The film
offers the Vatican, if it will listen, an emphatic lesson in
accountability.
It dramatizes the decision by The Boston Globe to do more than enumerate the scope of the scandal by reporting on cases involving scores of abusive priests. The scandal was tracked up the church hierarchy to Cardinal Bernard Law, who eventually had to resign his leadership when the news media, not the church, documented his role as a protector of abusive priests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/opinion/tracing-the-bishops-culpability-in-the-child-abuse-scandal.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160211&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y
It dramatizes the decision by The Boston Globe to do more than enumerate the scope of the scandal by reporting on cases involving scores of abusive priests. The scandal was tracked up the church hierarchy to Cardinal Bernard Law, who eventually had to resign his leadership when the news media, not the church, documented his role as a protector of abusive priests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/opinion/tracing-the-bishops-culpability-in-the-child-abuse-scandal.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160211&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y
