UNITED STATES
Irish Examiner
Saturday, December 12, 2015
The ’Boston Globe’s’ probe into the cover-up of clerical child sex abuse in Massachusetts has made it to the big screen, writes Michael Clifford
When Tom McCarthy was studying in Boston College, he occasionally found himself next door to the campus in the residence of the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law.
College life spilled over into the Cardinal’s residence through playing football in the extensive grounds. McCarthy remembers the sense of power that exuded from the bishop’s palace.
The young Irish American student from Providence Rhode Island wouldn’t have known it but within two decades he would be back to document the demise of the same cardinal who had appeared to bestride the Boston area and beyond.
Now an established name in the Hollywood firmament, McCarthy is the director and co-writer of Spotlight, a movie based on newspaper investigation into the cover-up of clerical sexual abuse which led to the cardinal’s resignation.
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