Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film was based on true events that have happened to The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, an investigative journalist unit, that uncovered the mysteries behind the cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. Spanning from 1976 to 2002, the film shows key events that shook the Boston Archdiocese but only centered on the events leading up to the team's first article from its series.
The official radio service of the Holy See has praised the film for its "honest" and "compelling" storytelling, which helped the US Catholic Church "to accept fully the sin, to admit it publicly, and to pay all the consequences." In February 2016, a Vatican City commission on clerical sex abuse attended a private screening of the film. Generally, the Roman clergy sees the film as not anti-Catholic.
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