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11/09/2015

Jennifer Haselberger

What follows is the acceptance speech that I delivered this part weekend at the Call to Action Conference in Milwaukee.

In a recent Op-Ed in the New York Times, Frank Bruni wrote of the dangers of genuflecting too readily before society’s temples, religious or otherwise, and rued the damage that is caused when faith is truly blind. Bruni was reflecting, as one might expect, on the film Spotlight, which opened this week in New York, Los Angeles, and, significantly, Boston. Spotlight, as I am sure you all know, recounts the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation into the history of sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Boston.

Many of you will probably remember when the Boston Globe began releasing its articles in the spring of 2002. You may also recall that one of the starting points for the Globe…