• Film/TV - Religion

    Catholic Priest Sexual Abuse and Its Cover-up: A Review of “Spotlight”

    “When you’re a poor kid from a poor family and a priest pays attention to you, it’s a big deal. How do you say no to God?” That’s the trap door that thousands of children—young boys mostly, but plenty of girls, too—fell down through over only-God-knows-how-many years, centuries, even, of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, a particular historical epoch of which has been captured so stirringly in the movie Spotlight, currently in theaters. The question posed above comes from one of the priest’s victims who operates a survivor’s support network that has long been mostly ignored by the media. The…