Spotlight
23 January, 2016

The presumption in contemporary screen representations of the Church is of an organisation that has something to hide and beyond that, is capable of sinister conspiracy. Spotlight, nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, is released in Britain next week. The drama is based on events in 2001, when the “Spotlight” team at The Boston Globe began investigations, triggered by the John J. Geoghan case, into sexual abuse of children by other Catholic priests in Massachusetts.