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Niall O’Dowd @niallodowd
I was blown away by the new movie “Spotlight,” which focuses on how the Boston Globe investigative team uncovered the massive pedophile scandal within the Boston Archdiocese and how Cardinal Bernard Law led the cover-up.
The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation, and it was deserved recognition for uncovering a scandal that rocked the church to its foundation and identified Law as one of the most corrupt clerics in history.
Eventually the Globe’s reporting discovered 247 priests and brothers accused of abuse and over 1,000 survivors of that abuse, some as young as four or five at the time they were abused.
The investigation linked Law directly to the cover-up, after which he was spirited out of Boston by the Vatican and given a prestigious job there, probably just before he was going to be arrested.
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