UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

Tom Roberts | Nov. 16, 2015

The media came in for high praise in a blog written recently by an archbishop addressing the “Spotlight” movie and sexual abuse in the church.

“The media was one of the major forces pushing the church to respond in a way that it failed to do up to that point, and we are better for it,” wrote Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a Nov. 12 blog posted on the website of the Archdiocese of Louisville.

With the release of “Spotlight,” he said, the role of the media will again be discussed, and he recalled a 2010 column in which he wrote: “I think we should acknowledge the role of the media in calling us to accountability and the firm resolve that is expressed in the Charter,” a reference to the…