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Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. [4] [5] The film follows The Boston Globe 's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, [6] and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests ...
The Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal was part of a series of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in the United States that revealed widespread crimes in the American Catholic Church. 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 ...
The Boston Globe ' s coverage of Geoghan's abuse opened the door for public knowledge of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston [2] and Catholic churches nationwide in general. This coverage is a key plot element of Tom McCarthy's film Spotlight (2015).
Based on the Orwell Prize-winning novel inspired by true events, "Small Things" is set in 1980s Ireland at a time when the Catholic Church wields absolute power over the faithful.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Globe Spotlight editor was also involved in The Boston Globe’s groundbreaking coverage of the Catholic Church that was depicted in the Oscar-winning movie “Spotlight
For more than a decade, Rezendes was a member of the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, a group of investigative reporters whose work in exposing various Catholic Church sex abuse cases won the newspaper the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. [5]
Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.
Talbot admitted to abusing "88 or 89" students altogether. One case is depicted in the movie Spotlight, which starred Michael Keaton in the role of Boston Globe editor Walter V. Robinson, who attended BCHS and who broke the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal in 2002. [7]