DCJ applauds the Motion Picture Academy’s selection of Spotlight as its “best picture” for 2015. The spotlight of public attention to the subject matter of this excellent motion picture seems to have lost lumens in recent years thanks to the entertainment Americans in its ridiculous politics, and the distraction of a popular Pope as the head of one of the world’s most corrupt institutions. Hopefully, this movie will tear open the still festering wound that the dark side of the so-called “Holy” Roman Catholic Church inflicts upon its most innocent with the complicity of its adherents from the Vatican to its parishes. It should be known that Spotlight does not shine on a recent practice of priestly predation on children, but one that has persisted at least since the Church established schools in the 1600s. Indeed, the disgusting complicity in the practice of relocating offending priests and protecting them from secular prosecution continues to this day.
Perhaps Spotlight will inspire Pope Francis to turn over priests who commit sexual abuse against children and the Church hierarchy that shields them from public prosecution. That includes Cardinal Bernard Law who, two years after resigning from his position in Boston, which the Church called “an important step in the healing process,” was appointed by the Polish Sausage Pope John-Paul as Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 2004. He resigned from this position upon reaching the age of 80 in November 2011. Pope Francis needs to send Law back to the U.S. to face prosecution as an accessory to felonious assault against children. Anything less makes Francis an accessory to the crimes that need to remain in the spotlight.
See the movie.