spotlight is the name of the investigate ireporting unit at the boston globe, and it is the name of the new movie starring michael keaton. that s why he had the reaction. he knew there were others. i think that s the bigger story. the numbers clearly indicate there was senior clergy involve popped. that s. all they do, indicate. are you telling me if we run a story with 50 pedophile priests with eeel get into the same cat fight you got into on porter, which made a lot of noise, but changed things not one bit. we need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. practice and policy. show me the church manipulated the system so these guys wouldn t have to face charges and they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. show me this is systemic, that came from the top down. joining me now the co-writer and executive producer of spotlight josh singer.
that s why he had the reaction. he knew there were others. i think that s the bigger story. the numbers clearly indicate there was senior clergy involve popped. that s. all they do, indicate. are you telling me if we run a story with 50 pedophile priests with eeel get into the same cat fight you got into on porter, which made a lot of noise, but changed things not one bit. we need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. practice and policy. show me the church manipulated the system so these guys wouldn t have to face charges and they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. show me this is systemic, that came from the top down. joining me now the co-writer and executive producer of spotlight josh singer. your co-author and director of this piece. i ve got to say in the reviews, there are two scripts this season that are getting favorite reviews.
will be held accountable. a strong statement and the pontiff also said he has a trip called up a vatican tribunal that will investigate and look no accusations that bishops all over the world have been covering, pedophile priests. on top of that, pope francis visited the prison here in philadelphia, which houses prisoners which are serving time. he met with some of their families and correctional officers. the pontiff saying, i know this moment is painful for you and your family. but he said everyone has something to be cleaned up. he shook their hands, even hugged them and blessed their rosaries. to keep a helping hand, to
do you need some help at the house? with your kids? that s pretty much how he was. at some point during the relationship, john made an offer to jennifer to start picking her daughter up from school, to help alleviate any costs associated with babysitting. many, many pedophiles that i ve run across over the years are the most charming, helpful members of the community. we all know about the pedophile priests. we all know about jerry sandusky. everybody knows about those type of pedophiles, but they never think it can happen to them. he lived directly behind where i worked.
this horrible time of pedophile priests, that is part of the record and at the same time this pope wants to say this was a holy man, yes, there was this failing on john paul ii s watch but look at this for humanity. i wouldn t exaggerate within the church the degree of controversy over this cannon nye zags of pope john paul ii. on the argument against, i don t think that there s a huge constituency in the church that holds that view. and what do you suppose this says about pope francis, that he would have this pairing of john xxii and john paul in this way. that he s very astute and he