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“If you really want to understand the crisis, you have to start with the celibacy requirement. That was my first major finding. Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects pedophiles.”
— Richard Sipe (voice) (uncredited), Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests, celibacy
“You guys gotta understand. This is big. This is not just Boston. It's the whole country. It's the whole world. And it goes right up to the Vatican.”
— Phil Saviano, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests
“How do you say 'no' to God, right?”
— Phil Saviano, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests
“Sacha Pfeiffer: [from trailer] We understand you settled several cases against the church.

Eric Macleish: I can't discuss that.

Sacha Pfeiffer: Are there any records of any of these settlements?

Eric Macleish: No.”
— Eric Macleish, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests
“I was eleven. And I was preyed upon by father David Holly in Wester. And I don't mean prayed for, I mean preyed upon.”
— Phil Saviano, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests
“They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys.”
— Peter Canellos, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests, Physical Abuse, Spiritual abuse
“Walter 'Robby' Robinson: You know thirteen priests in Boston who have molested children?

Phil Saviano: Yeah! Why do you keep repeating everything I say?

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: [quieter than before] I just like to clarify things.

Phil Saviano: Maybe you should have clarified it five years ago when I sent you all of this stuff! It's all... right here! [silence, Phil composes himself] May I use your bathroom? [pause]

Matt Carroll: Yeah, sure, Phil.”
— Walter "Robby" Robinson, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests
“Eric Macleish: Most of these folks, they just want some acknowledgement... of what happened. We got them a sit down with the Bishop and... a little dough, and that's the best they can hope for.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Well, certainly, the best that priest could hope for.”
— Walter "Robby" Robinson, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests, Reporters, payola, Bribe
“Guys, listen. Everybody's gonna be interested in this.”
— Walter "Robby" Robinson, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests, Reporters, public interest
“I wanna keep digging”
— Walter "Robby" Robinson, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests, Reporters, digging
“Jim Sullivan: I was doing my job.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Yeah, you and everyone else.”
— Walter "Robby" Robinson, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests, just doing my job
“We've got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them.”
— Walter "Robby" Robinson, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Pedophile Priests
“Marty Baron: Did everyone read Eileen McNamara's column this weekend?

Boston Globe Worker: That's the Geoghan case?

Marty Baron: Yeah, what's the follow on that?

Ben Bradlee Jr.: It—it's a column, what kind of follow are you thinking?

Marty Baron: Uh... well apparently this priest molested kids in six different parishes over the last 30 years and the attorney for the victims, a Mr...

Eileen McNamara: Garabedian.

Marty Baron: Thanks Eileen, Mr Garabedian says Cardinal Law found out about it 15 years ago and did nothing.

Paul Burke: Yeah, I think that attorney is a bit of a crank, and The Church dismissed the claim.

Eileen McNamara: He-said she-said.

Marty Baron: Whether Mr Garabedian is a 'crank' or not, he says he has documents that prove that Cardinal knew.

Ben Bradlee Jr.: As I understand that those documents are under seal.

Marty Baron: Okay, but the fact remains a Boston priest abused 80 kids, we have a lawyer who says he can prove Law knew about it and we've written all of... uh... 2 stories in the last 6 months. This strikes me as an essential story to a local paper, I think the very least we have to go through those documents.

Paul Burke: How would you like to do that?

Marty Baron: Oh uh, I don't know what the laws are here, but in Florida we would go to court.

Ben Bradlee Jr.: You wanna sue the Church?

Marty Baron: Technically we wouldn't sue the Church, we'd file a motion to lift the seal on the documents.

Ben Bradlee Jr.: The Church will read that as us suing them. So will everybody else.

Marty Baron: Good to know.”
— Marty Baron, Spotlight
Tagged: Priests, Child Molestation, Catholic Church, Journalism
“Cardinal Law: If I can be of any help, Marty, don't hesitate to ask. I find that the city flourishes when its great institutions work together.

Marty Baron: Thank you. Personally I'm of the opinion that for a paper to best perform its function, it really needs to stand alone.”
— Marty Baron, Spotlight
Tagged: Priests, Child Molestation, Catholic Church, Journalism
“Marty Baron: We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy; show me the church manipulated the system so that these guys wouldn't have to face charges, show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top, down.

Ben Bradlee Jr.: Sounds like we're going after Law.

Marty Baron: We're going after the system.”
— Marty Baron, Spotlight
Tagged: Priests, Child Molestation, Catholic Church
“Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this.”
— Marty Baron, Spotlight
Tagged: Blame, Reporting, Journalism
“I know there's things you cannot tell people. But I also know there's a story here people will hear about it.”
— Michael Rezendes, Spotlight
Tagged: Child Molestation, Catholic Church, Priests, secrecy
“They knew and they let it happen! It could've been you, it could've been me, it could've been any of us.”
— Michael Rezendes, Spotlight
Tagged: Child Molestation, Catholic Church, Priests
“Mike Rezendes: [from trailer] Six percent is 90.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: 90 priests?

Ben Bradlee Jr.: If there were 90 of these bastards, people would know.

Mike Rezendes: Maybe they do.”
— Michael Rezendes, Spotlight
Tagged: Child Molestation, Catholic Church, Priests
“Mike Rezendes: We got Law. This is it.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: No, this is Law covering for one priest, there's another ninety out there.

Mike Rezendes: Yeah, and we'll print that story when we get it, but we got to go with this now.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: No, I'm not going to rush this story, Mike.

Mike Rezendes: We don't have a choice, Robby. If we don't rush to print, somebody else is going to find these letters and butcher this story. Joe Quimby from the Herald was at the freaking courthouse!

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Mike.

Mike Rezendes: What? Why are we hesitating? Baron told us to get Law. This is Law.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Baron told us to get the system. We need the full scope. That's the only thing that will put an end to this.

Mike Rezendes: Then let's take it up to Ben and let him decide.

Walter 'Robby' Robinson: We'll take it to Ben when I say it's time.

Mike Rezendes: It's time, Robby! It's time! They knew and they let it happen! To KIDS! Okay? It could have been you, it could have been me, it could have been any of us. We gotta nail these scumbags! We gotta show people that nobody can get away with this; Not a priest, or a cardinal or a freaking pope!”
— Michael Rezendes, Spotlight
Tagged: The Law, Child Molestation, Catholic Church
“Mitchell Garabedian: Three years ago I get a call from an ex-priest, Anthony Benzovich. He was at Blessed Sacrament back in '62, and he saw Geoghan... [waits for two cops to pass by, then continues] ... taking little boys up to the rectory bedroom. So he's appalled, all right? And tells the bishop about it. The bishop threatens to re-assign him... to South America.

Mike Rezendes: Jesus.

Mike Rezendes: Yeah. So, fast forward thirty-five years. Benzovich reads that Geoghan has been charged with molesting hundreds of kids. So, he feels guilty. He calls me. So, you have testimony of a priest telling his superiors about Geoghan in '62?

Mitchell Garabedian: [shakes his head] No, I do not. Because when I call Benzovich in to give a disposition, he comes in with a lawyer.

Mike Rezendes: Wilson Rogers!

Mitchell Garabedian: Right. And suddenly, Father Benzovich has a very foggy memory. Can't remember anything. He's useless. So, I go back to work, I forget about it, whatever. Until about a year ago, I find an article about a priest who warned church officials about Geoghan.

Mike Rezendes: Benzovich went to the press?

Mitchell Garabedian: Yeah. Local paper, Patriot-Ledger. Nobody saw it. But now I got Benzovich on record. So, I file a motion to depose Benzovich a second time. And Wilson Rogers, that smug son of a bitch, files a motion opposing my motion. And that's when I have him.

Mike Rezendes: Have him how?

Mitchell Garabedian: Rogers opposes my motion, so I have to make an argument as to why I'm allowed to depose Father Benzovich a second time. OK? But this time, I'm allowed to attach exhibits. You follow what I'm saying?

Mike Rezendes: The sealed documents?

Mitchell Garabedian: Yes! I can attach the sealed documents that I've gotten in discovery, Mr. Rezendes, the same documents your paper is currently suing for.

Mike Rezendes: You're shitting me!

Mitchell Garabedian: What? No, no, I'm not shitting you! So, I pull out the fourteen most damning docs, and I attach them to my motion. And they prove everything. Everything! About the church, about the bishops, about Law...

Mike Rezendes: And it's all public! Because your motion to oppose Rogers' motion...

Mitchell Garabedian: ...is public, yeah. Exactly. Now you're paying attention.

Mike Rezendes: So, I can just walk into that courtroom right now and get those documents?

Mitchell Garabedian: No, you cannot. Because the documents are not there.

Mike Rezendes: But you just said they're public.

Mitchell Garabedian: I know I did. But this is Boston. And the church does not want them to be found. So, they are not there.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: Child Molestation, Catholic Church
“Mitchell Garabedian: I already talked to the Phoenix.

Mike Rezendes: Yeah, there's a reason I didn't see it. Nobody reads a Phoenix anymore... they're broke, they don't have any power. The Globe does. If we cover the story, everybody will hear about it.

Mitchell Garabedian: The Church thinks in centuries, Mr. Rezendes. Do you think your paper has resources to take that on?

Mike Rezendes: Yeah, I do. But if you don't mind me asking...Do you?”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Catholic Church
“I'm not crazy, they control everything.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: crazy, Control
“I don't want you recording this in any way, shape or form. Nothing.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: top secret, surreptitious
“Mitchell Garabedian: I'm Armenian. How many Armenians do you know in Boston?

Mike Rezendes: Steve Kurkjian, works at the Globe...

Mitchell Garabedian: Oh. That's two. You should get a prize or something.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: Armenian, Boston, Boston Globe
“He's one of the lucky ones. He's still alive.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: Lucky, alive
“Mike Rezendes: Mitch, are you telling me that the Catholic Church removed legal documents from that courthouse?

Mitchell Garabedian: Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid. I'm experienced. Check the docket. You'll see. They control everything.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: Catholic Church, Paranoid, crazy, experienced
“ If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”
— Mitchell Garabedian, Spotlight
Tagged: Child Abuse, It Takes A Village
“S*x with you is like I'm dreaming, and I just wanna hear you scream again.”
— Lil Peep, Spotlight
Tagged: Sexy Texts, Sexts
“Loving you is like a fairytale.”
— Lil Peep, Spotlight
Tagged: Similes, Things To Text Her, Magical Love, Ways To Describe Love, Love Quotes For Her
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