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Hollywood casts uncomfortable Spotlight on Church abuse

Pope Francis still has to prove the Church is serious about addressing sex abuse by priests, according to the director of a major new film about how the damaging scandal was exposed in the United States. Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight”, a newsroom drama that focuses on how the Boston Globe broke a local story that was to become a global crisis for the Church, had its premiere on Thursday at the

Trump expected to sign Republican loyalty pledge Thursday: report

U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump is expected on Thursday to pledge that he will not run as an independent candidate if he loses the Republican Party’s nomination, ABC News reported, citing a source familiar with Trump’s conversations with the party. Trump, a real estate mogul, has suggested he would consider an independent run if Republicans did not nominate him as their candidate. The Republican National Committee has asked its pool