Episode 2: The Boston Church Scandal — When Protecting the Institution Failed the Children
In 2002, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team published an investigation showing that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston had reassigned priests despite abuse allegations and had handled cases behind layers of institutional secrecy. The reporting transformed what could have been treated as misconduct by individual priests into a much larger examination of institutional responsibility. This episode examines how hierarchy, secrecy, deference to authority, and reputation can allow wrongdoing to remain hidden.
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