Documentary describes La Jolla psychiatrist’s battle against church secrecy
The documentary “Sex, Lies and the Priesthood,” which premiered in March, looks at the life of late La Jolla resident Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk and Catholic priest.
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‘Sex, Lies and the Priesthood’ tells the story of the late Richard Sipe, who helped expose abuse.
By Mark Day
In a scene in “Spotlight,” the Oscar-winning film about clerical sex abuse,
Boston Globe reporters huddle around a speakerphone listening intently to the words of Richard Sipe, portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
Sipe, a former Benedictine monk renowned for his defense of clerical sex abuse victims, died at his home in La Jolla at age 85 on Aug. 8, 2018.
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In a riveting scene in “Spotlight,” the Oscar-winning film about clerical sex abuse, Boston Globe reporters huddle around a speaker phone listening intently to the words of Richard Sipe, portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
Sipe, a former Benedictine monk renowned for his defense of clerical sex abuse victims, died at his home in San Diego at age 85 on Aug. 8, 2018.
Sipe stunned the Globe reporters when he said 50 percent of American Catholic priests do not practice celibacy. He assumed that at least 6 percent of Boston priests were sexual predators.
He was wrong. The Globe uncovered nearly 100 priest predators in the Boston archdiocese, about 10 percent of its clergy.
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A justice speaks; justice is elusive; justice is sought
By Peter Keough Globe correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 1:45 p.m.
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One of the unexpected revelations in Freida Lee Mockâs
âRuth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Wordsâ (2019) is that the late, idolized US Supreme Court justice, who died in September at 87, owed her writing skills to her European literature professor at Cornell University, the novelist Vladimir Nabokov. That distinguished tutelage helped make her, according to one of her former aides, the Tiger Woods of writing briefs.
Mock compiles archival interviews and public utterances by Ruth Bader Ginsburg as well as interviews with former aides, associates, and others. These tidbits personalize Ginsburgâs now-familiar trajectory from star law school graduate spurned by employers, to ace ACLU lawyer who prevailed in several gender discrimination cases brought before the Supreme Court, to D.C. Circuit judge, to associate Supreme