SCOTLAND
Scotsman

CHRIS MARSHALL
Tuesday 09 February 2016

There’s a part in the Oscar-nominated Spotlight where a journalist assures an abuse survivor that previous failures to listen to his story will not be repeated this time around.

The film tells the real-life story of how The Boston Globe helped uncover sexual abuse in the Catholic Church amid claims it was systematically covered up by moving paedophile priests to different parishes.

But it also explores how the authorities and the media repeatedly failed to take accusations against the Church seriously.

The film was released just months after the Church in Scotland issued a “profound” apology to victims.

Archbishop Philip Tartaglia said Scottish bishops were “shamed and pained” by the abuse that had taken place.