I saw the movie, Spotlight

Steve Kurkjian played by Gene Amoroso has a line in the movie which jolted my leg to a halt and shot my fist in the air with a silent “Amen!”, “It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one…” Chris and I saw the…

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How the ‘Spotlight’ movie got made

Originally published in the Boston Globe on October 30, 2015 By Meredith Goldstein. From left: Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, and director Tom McCarthy on the “Spotlight” set. On Jan. 6, 2002, The Boston Globe published a story by its investigative Spotlight team revealing that the Catholic Church knew about sexual…

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Scandal erodes traditional deference to church

Originally published in the Boston Globe on May 12, 2002 By Kevin Cullen. Attorney General Thomas Reilly at a news conference March 1. From left are District Attorneys Daniel Conley, Kevin Burke, Timothy Cruz, William Keating, and Martha Coakley, and Geline Williams, head of the Mass. District Attorneys Association When…

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Church allowed abuse by priest for years Aware of Geoghan record, archdiocese still shuttled him from parish to parish

Originally published in the Boston Globe on January 6, 2002. This article was prepared by the Globe Spotlight Team: reporters Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Michael Rezendes; and editor Walter V. Robinson. It was written by Rezendes. Read more from the 2002 Boston Globe report on the Catholic Church abuse…

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