The shadow villain of Spotlight,
Bernard Law was one of America’s most ambitious and prominent
cardinals—until his handling of the sex-abuse scandal caught up with
him. Spotlight is a gripping new film by Tom McCarthy on The Boston Globe’s investigation
of how that archdiocese concealed child-molester priests. Set in 2001,
the film serves as backstory to the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that
began on Jan. 6, 2002—“Feast of the Epiphany,” as we learn in the
intelligent script by McCarthy and Josh Singer.
Taking on the church in heavily Catholic Boston was no small order.
Several of the reporters came from Catholic homes. Marty Baron, the Globe’s new editor, by way of The Miami Herald, suggested the investigation after reading a Globe columnist on a priest abuse case. Baron wanted to know more; he later became editor of The Washington Post.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/26/the-shadow-behind-spotlight-how-predator-priests-derailed-boston-s-would-be-pope-cardinal-bernard-law.html