Hollywood casts uncomfortable Spotlight on Church abuse

03 September 2015 - 16:41
By Angus MACKINNON and Giovanni Grezzi

Pope Francis still has to prove the Church is serious about addressing sex abuse by priests, according to the director of a major new film about how the damaging scandal was exposed in the United States. Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, a newsroom drama that focuses on how the Boston Globe broke a local story that was to become a global crisis for the Church, had its premiere on Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.

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