Spotlight on abuse in the Catholic Church

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Spotlight on abuse in the Catholic Church

There is only Action and force of arms, bring the thrill of going to the cinema is not always. Also, this journalist-Drama about a real scandal and its detection by a persistent Reporter can do it.

The Film, “Spotlight” was nominated at this year’s Oscars in six categories: Best Film, best screenplay, best Director, best editing, as well as Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo as best supporting actor. Two of the Film has cleared then finally, the best Film and for best original screenplay.

What is it: there is Hardly an event that has shaken the Roman Catholic Church in the past centuries, as strong as the sexual abuse of children and young people, staff, clergy, and other Church. Since the 1990s, more and more abuse cases were known on all continents. With this Form of violence, drive-controlled priest led the spiritual Ideals and moral standards of the Christian faith to the point of absurdity. They rushed her to the Church in a crisis from which it has still not recovered.

To left hundreds of thousands of Catholics in their faith home. By no means only those on the periphery who were already at the ready to leap, but often volunteer staff, over the years, her heart and soul in Church work areas flow. To deep disappointment of sat, to the failure of Parts of the spiritual Elite. Also in the United States of America, more and more allegations of abuse were known, initially about 15 years ago in Boston.

A true story

Director Tom McCarthy

But how is this explosive and at the same time, multi-layered fabric of sexual abuse address, and in a movie format casting, which is at the same time exciting and inspires you to Think? Director Tom McCarthy, who wrote with Josh Singer, the screenplay of “Spotlight”, chose a real event – an instructional piece of investigative Jounalismus. In 2001, the daily newspaper, “The Boston Globe”, one of the most respected Newspapers in the United States, in an unprecedented way had exposed a swamp of abuse, cover-up and intimidation of victims in the Catholic Church in the city. And that is exactly what the Film puts its focus on The bottom of it.

Boston is a strongly Roman Catholic and the seat of the homonymous Archdiocese. Because the Archbishop of Boston traditionally is one of the most important and most influential bishops of the United States, he has usually the cardinal rank. That made the thing at the time particularly difficult.

Journalistic Specialty Team

What happened: The editor-in-chief of the “Boston Globe”, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), just new in this office, read in his newspaper a brief, but controversial message. Thus, under cardinal Bernard Law, the former Archbishop of Boston, nothing against the pedophile priest, John Geoghan, even though he was on the massively practiced sexual abuse fully in the picture. Baron sensed behind the thick Story. Therefore, he continued over many months, the Spotlight Team, in his editorial on the subject. This rather small resort is certain to be a special force of experienced journalists, which is trying by means of intensive Research, editorial actionable information and evidence. The Film accompanies this four-member Team, played by Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, and John Slattery, in the daily laborious work.

Viewers as a guest student

Research is everything – the Spotlight at work

Director Tom Mc Carthy shows how the protagonists tried to be time to Cover up from the aisles in the seemingly impenetrable-looking thicket, Silence, Displace, and to beat lies. The machetes of the Research of the Spotlight team were in a time in which the Internet offered not long ago, the present-day, almost banal: telephone calls, Investigations, court, visits to self-help groups, interviewing of Victims, witnesses and informants.

All of the Film – and even more: discussions and strategies between paper stacks and powerful tube-based monitors overloaded with editorial desks. Over all, the latent threat of the barely tangible, but powerful Institution of the Church and their helpers, to the back of the newspaper, if necessary, legally body. Shrewd lawyers, journalists, who are by no means ideal, but it yourself craft error. All of the spectators to a secret editorial interns, the experienced, such as train to train, the truth will come out and rail breaks.

This kind of journalism is needed

The expense of the “Boston Globe” and his Spotlight has paid off in many ways. In 2002, the US decided-bishops ‘ conference of tougher policies in dealing with sexual offences. They include periods of extended period of limitation and the Specialization of the priests, where there is an abuse, so the suspension of their rights and obligations. Many thousands of victims have found the courage to sue for damages. By 2010, they were compensated with a total of more than two billion US dollars. For some dioceses this has meant the From. Because they were not able to support the claims, they had to file for bankruptcy.

Priest John Geoghan, whose case of the “Boston Globe” started in 2001, it was year 2002 due to the abuse of Minors sentenced to a long prison sentence. The Archbishop of Boston, cardinal Bernard Law, was forced to resign because of alleged concealment of offences and was pushed to a klerikales siding in Rome. Anywhere in the world, years later in Germany, telling victims of abuse the courage to make their priests inflicted sexual violence in public. The “Boston Globe” has finally been awarded for his excellent work in 2003 with the prestigious Pulitzer prize.

First film prices – here at the 22. Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, at the end of January 2016

Oscars for “Spotlight”?

Now, probably the best Hollywood has honored Film about investigative journalism since “all The President’s men” (1976 relating to the Watergate affair) as “Best Film” Oscar. There was the Oscar for best screenplay. This honors the themes are perhaps even more attention. Since Thursday (25.02.) the Film will be screened in German cinemas. After the US launch of the “Spotlight” at the beginning of November 2015, the Pope attested to be the transmitter of Radio Vatican, the film biography of “honest” and “urgent”. You could help the Catholic Church in the United States, to carry your sins to admit and the consequences.

If, on the coming Sunday (28.02.) in Los Angeles, this year’s Oscars will be awarded, there could be one or the other Surprise. The Film, “Spotlight” was in six categories: Best Film, best screenplay, best Director, best editing, as well as Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo is nominated as best supporting actor. Since Thursday (25.02.) he is running in the German cinemas.

It’s Hardly an event that has shaken the Roman Catholic Church in the past centuries, as strong as the sexual abuse of children and young people, staff, clergy, and other Church. Since the 1990s, more and more abuse cases were known on all continents. With this Form of violence, drive-controlled priest led the spiritual Ideals and moral standards of the Christian faith to the point of absurdity. They rushed her to the Church in a crisis from which it has still not recovered. To left hundreds of thousands of Catholics in their faith home. By no means only those on the periphery who were already at the ready to leap, but often volunteer staff, over the years, her heart and soul in Church work areas flow. To deep disappointment of sat, to the failure of Parts of the spiritual Elite.

Also in the United States of America, more and more allegations of abuse were known, initially about 15 years ago in Boston.

A true story

But how is this explosive and at the same time, multi-layered fabric of sexual abuse address, and in a movie format casting, which is at the same time exciting and inspires you to Think? Director Tom McCarthy, who wrote with Josh Singer, the screenplay of “Spotlight”, chose a real event – an instructional piece of investigative journalism’. In 2001, the daily newspaper, “The Boston Globe”, one of the most respected Newspapers in the United States, in an unprecedented way had exposed a swamp of abuse, cover-up and intimidation of victims in the Catholic Church in the city. And that is exactly what the Film puts its focus on the bottom of it.

Journalistic Specialty Team

What happened: The editor-in-chief of the “Boston Globe”, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), just new in this office, read in his newspaper a brief, but controversial message. Thus, under cardinal Bernard Law, the former Archbishop of Boston, nothing against the pedophile priest, John Geoghan, even though he was on the massively practiced sexual abuse fully in the picture. Baron sensed behind the thick Story. Therefore, he continued over many months, the Spotlight Team, in his editorial on the subject. This rather small resort is certain to be a special force of experienced journalists, which is trying by means of intensive Research, editorial actionable information and evidence. The Film accompanies this four-member Team, played by Michel Keaton, Marc Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, and John Slattery, in the daily laborious work.

Viewers as a guest student

This kind of journalism is needed

Oscars for “Spotlight”?

Whether the probably the best Hollywood Film gets about investigative journalism since “all The President’s men” (1976 relating to the Watergate affair) is actually a or even more Oscars? Whether this also depends on how many members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Catholics are? It would probably not, actually, because after the U.S. launch of the “Spotlight” at the beginning of November 2015, the Pope, Radio Vatican, the film biography attested to “honestly” and “to be urgent”. You could help the Catholic Church in the United States, to carry your sins to admit and the consequences.