‘People need the church more than ever right now’.
That’s what a lawyer tells a journalist from the Boston Globe in 2001, as the newspaper’s four-person investigative team, Spotlight, is in the mire of pursuing a story which would later win them a Pulitzer Prize.
What begins as a small reference to a case of the Catholic Church settling out of court with the family of a child abused by a priest snowballs into a year-long campaign in the Tom McCarthy directed film Spotlight, retelling the events, which was released in the UK at the end of January.
