Phil Saviano Channel

This collection of historic news broadcasts documents the history of the Catholic clergy sexual abuse issue in Massachusetts. Many of the news videos feature Boston's Phil Saviano, an activist and whistleblower who is featured in the Academy Award-winning movie SPOTLIGHT. Saviano went public about his childhood abuse in December 1992. In April 1997, he established a New England chapter of the national victims' advocacy group, SNAP. What is now seen as a world-wide problem and cover-up by church officials, bishops and cardinals, was given broad, international exposure through investigative reporting by The Boston Globe in 2001 and 2002.

For more about this issue, please visit Mr. Saviano's archival website, www.philsaviano.com, the SNAP website at www.snapnetwork.org and Bishop Accountability at www.bishopaccountability.org.