ROCHESTER (NY)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
November 24, 2019
By Michael Kilian
“It’s time, Robby. They knew and they let it happen! To kids! This coulda been you, it coulda been me, it could have been any one of us.”
— Mark Ruffalo, playing Boston Globe reporter Mike Rezendes, in “Spotlight”
If you’ve never seen the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight” from 2015, I highly recommend you watch/stream it at home this winter.
Featuring stellar performances from Rachel McAdam and Mark Ruffalo and from old pro Michael Keaton, this film is riveting in exploring how The Boston Globe unearthed an extensive cover-up by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston of sexual abuse of children by priests and other religious figures.
It wasn’t a story the substantially Irish-Catholic community of Boston necessarily wanted to hear in 2002. It certainly wasn’t a story the church wanted revealed, after decades of shifting abusing priests from parish to parish without repercussions.
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