VATICAN CITY
Eyewitness News (South Africa)
Reuters
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper on Monday lauded the film Spotlight, which took home this year’s Oscar for best picture, for giving voice to the pain of the victims of sexual abuse by the clergy.
The film tells the story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a massive scandal of child molestation in the city’s archdiocese.
The Osservatore Romano said the film did not take a hostile position against the Church.
It gives “a voice to the shock and profound pain of the faithful who confront the discovery of this horrible reality”, said an opinion piece by columnist Lucetta Scaraffia.
“It’s by now clear that in the Church too many were worried about the image of the institution and not the gravity of the act.”
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