Spotlight (I) (2015)

Doug Murray: Peter Canellos

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• Peter Canellos : 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 : 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 6 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.

  Peter Canellos : 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.

  Peter Canellos : 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.