Film Review: Spotlight. Spotlight Team Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church. Good afternoon, ambassador. var s_channel="News"; The team then created a database, which allowed it to match a target list of 100 priests with allegations of abuse. The Boston Globe's Spotlight team is unveiling a report on what it calls a worldwide and "systemic problem" within the Catholic Church: priests fathering illegitimate children. Tom McCarthys Spotlight is a taut, quasi-political thriller that chronicles the Boston Globes landmark 2002 exposure of widespread child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Boston McCarthy describes the battle between the Globe reporters and the leaders of the Catholic Church in Boston as a case of "Goliath versus Goliath." "This was the best the Boston Globe had, the Spotlight team was the crown jewel of that institution," McCarthy says. Matt Carroll, Other investigative reporters On Jan. 6, 2002, the first in a series of reports by the Globe Spotlight Team unmasked the church's handling of pedophile priest John Geoghan (left). The other "Spotlight" looks at how The Boston Globe exposed the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests. I think that a newspaper is a very powerful institution, and we should exercise our power in judicious ways, but we should not be afraid to exercise our power either. In early 2002, The Boston Globepublished results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. Found inside Page iiCourage at Three AM says, simply, I am human, a man. I have lived lifes paradoxes, its arrows of broken integrity and its abuses of soul and meaning which, over time, demand a hearing by haunting the 3AMs of our waking dreams. Kevin Cullen Another accused priest who was involved in the Spotlight scandal also pleaded g The Globe has estimated that the Church may eventually pay more than $100 million to settle dozens of pending sexual molestation claims against priests. At the time, the Globe Spotlight Team reported last month, Law had just removed Geoghan from St. Brendan's Church in Dorchester for molesting children. As it happened, the day after the column appeared, a new editor, Martin Baron, arrived at The Globe fresh from the helm at The Miami Herald. I apologize for that, and I will reflect on what this all means. Finally, Kathryn unfolded a newsletter published by a Catholic religious order and slid it across the table. In a dramatic statement earlier this month, Cardinal Law apologized to Boston Catholics for the pain of the Church scandal. In this engaging work, now available in paperback, Thomas H. O'Connor chronicles the activities, achievements, and failures of the Church's leaders and parishioners over the course of two centuries. They did not even care to know what our questions were. I discovered Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, which was written by the Globes Spotlight team. I think the icing on the cake here for some of the people who have been calling for his resignation is that if he resigns, then The Boston Globe can get their Pulitzer Prize. //-->