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Catholic Herald

by Francis Phillips posted Friday, 19 Feb 2016

‘Betrayal’ is a grim story but every Catholic should read it

I have just been reading a grim book: Betrayal (Profile Books, £8.99).

First published in 2002, it has now been reissued and updated to coincide with the release of the film Spotlight. For those few remaining people who might not know what the film is about, the Spotlight team were a small group of investigative reporters on the Boston Globe newspaper, who first alerted America to the systemic sexual abuse of young people by a small group of priests in the Boston archdiocese.

Almost the worst feature of this harrowing saga was that Cardinal Law, archbishop of Boston, had known about this abuse yet had constantly moved the priests involved from parish to treatment centre and from treatment centre back to another parish.

Those who did…