Carol A. Kuhnert

11-’15   SPOTLIGHT movie review

This is a heads-up for anyone still doubting the truth of clergy sexual abuse reports being made against priests in the Catholic Church.  This movie exposes the Church Officials’ appalling behavior in just the Boston area; shocking everyone in 2002.

I recently viewed Spotlight at a St Louis South County theatre.  Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams portray journalists assigned to investigate reports by abuse survivors in Boston.  A specific investigative team of the Globe newspaper, referred to as the Spotlight Team, exposes heartbreaking evidence of the crimes committed against vulnerable children by predator priests, as well as the continuous, outrageous cover-ups by Church Officials.

Spotlight shows how the Team gathered all the incriminating facts, having to be determined in getting documents sealed by the Church released for public knowledge.  Their months-long investigation eventually proved that cover-ups reached the highest echelons of the Church, right to the Vatican.

Learn how the Church has been able to conceal its corrupt ways and how even the Globe’s leaders had dropped the ball with previously made reports of clergy abuse.  You owe it to yourself, and the many survivors who struggle to this day in trying to pull their lives together,  to go see this movie.