NEW JERSEY
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By Rev. Alexander Santora/For the Jersey Journal
on November 17, 2015

It was a dreary, rainy, cold Tuesday evening last week when I trudged over to Union Square, Manhattan, to see, “Spotlight.” The film depicts The Boston Globe’s investigative unit uncovering the enormous sexual scandal in the Boston Archdiocese back in 2002.

Entering the theater just before endless trailers began, I was amazed to find not only a few seats left, but also that most of the audience was made up of young adults. The movie was only playing in one other uptown theater. After two hours and eight minutes, I was tempted to run up to the front of the theater and ask the people to stay seated so we could talk.

They could not leave the theater after the film ends with the publication of the front-page story on the Feast of Epiphany….