In 2002 The Boston Globe’s Spotlight series exposed rampant sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in the Boston archdiocese and a cover-up by church authorities. The series found that the archdiocese knowingly reassigned abusive priests to different parishes rather than removing them from the ministry. The scandal caused Boston to become a focal point for the abuse crisis in the United States and resulted in the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law. In addition, it encouraged hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of victims to come forward globally, and it severely damaged the Catholic Church’s credibility.
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