The long, resistant road to reformation: the Church today and “Spotlight” / America magazine

On Saturday I saw “Spotlight,” the powerful new Tom McCarthy film about the Boston Globe’s work to break the Boston sexual abuse story in 2002 … It’s a surprisingly restrained, quietly devastating drama that well captures the unfolding horror of that moment. To my mind “Spotlight” is also a film that pushes the church to consider where it is today, and where it needs to go.” (boldface added)

By Jim McDermott, America magazine —  Click here to read the rest of this article and click here to read “Watching ‘Spotlight’ as a young priest” by Sam Sawyer, S.J., for a similar take on the movie and the Church’s scandal.

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  1. #1 by glorybe1929 on November 16, 2015 - 1:12 PM

    Im sending this on to a Liberal Catholic. She just saw the fimv & feels Law should be in jail. What a revelation at this point in time.. People just want everything to stay the way they want them. Not going to happen ,chuch or world

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