Day after day in 2002, the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team was unearthing secrets that had been kept in the Roman Catholic crypt. The bones of tens of thousands of children who had been sexually abused by priests had been found. It was revealed that the crimes had been covered up, and the perpetrators moved to unsuspecting parishes to molest again and again. Church administrators were given clear directives on how to avoid prosecution by hiding the criminals and silencing the victims. A soul corroding contagion was allowed to spread, psychological wounds festered, and childhoods were infected...
Day after day in 2002, the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team was unearthing secrets that had been kept in the Roman Catholic crypt. The bones of tens of t...