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Welcome to Friday. When Martin Baron announced his upcoming retirement, he cited his work overseeing the Boston Globe's coverage of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up as a highlight of his journalistic career. The mother of environmental justice, Hazel Johnson, who spent more than 30 years working to clean up her corner of Chicago's southeast side, was Catholic.
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** 'Spotlight' editor on retirement: Clergy abuse coverage has permanently changed church ([link removed])
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When Martin Baron, one of the most consequential newspaper editors in America, announced his upcoming retirement, he cited his work overseeing the Boston Globe's coverage of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up as a highlight of his journalistic career.

"I think the impact has been really quite profound on several levels," he told NCR ahead of his retirement. "One on investigative journalism, the other on the Catholic Church and then more broadly on institutions that are facing allegations of abuse of various types, but particularly sexual abuse."

His Spotlight team's pioneering work in 2001 and 2002, which earned the Globe a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for chronicling decades of abuse in the Boston Archdiocese and subsequent cover-up by the most powerful Catholic cleric in the country, Cardinal Bernard Law, was turned into an Academy Award-winning film in 2015 in which Baron was memorably portrayed by Liev Schreiber.

While Baron may be a newspaperman's newspaperman, he doesn't mind the fact that it was a movie that increased his prominence beyond the newsroom, telling NCR it was gratifying to see the way "Spotlight" elevated the importance of journalism.

You can read more of the interview here ([link removed]) .

More background:
* NCR has been covering clerical sexual abuse since 1985. In 2015, we published a series called 30 years later ([link removed]) , looking back at 30 years of coverage.

* You can read all of NCR's coverage of the movie 'Spotlight' here ([link removed]) .

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** Hazel Johnson, the mother of environmental justice, was Catholic ([link removed])
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For more than 30 years, Hazel Johnson worked to clean up her corner of Chicago's southeast side. Her relentless advocacy made her a fixture in local news, and her story has been told in profiles and books and kept alive among her peers in the struggle for environmental justice. But one aspect of her life that's been less explored is her faith.

Hazel Johnson was also Catholic.

"It was her faith that got her to the place where she is today," said her daughter Cheryl Johnson.

Ten years after her death in January 2011, at age 75 from congestive heart failure, Johnson's contributions to environmental justice continue to resonate — at a time when the movement has reached new heights around the country and in the White House.

You can read more of the story here ([link removed]) .

More background:
* Poor air quality from an oil well. Contaminated drinking water from a chemical plant. Low-income housing located in a floodplain. These are all examples of environmental injustice ([link removed]) .

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** More headlines
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* NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters writes ([link removed]) about a recent column by Fran Maier, the longtime senior advisor to former Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, in which he presents the results of confidential interviews he conducted with 29 U.S. bishops. The problem is, the interviews are all anonymous.

* Boston College is investigating the chairman of its theology department ([link removed]) , Richard Gaillardetz, following allegations he sexually assaulted a former classmate nearly three decades ago.

* At EarthBeat ([link removed]) , the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, who tried to stop a natural gas pipeline from crossing their land by building a chapel, are now seeking damages in court from the energy company that constructed it.

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** Final thoughts
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Mark your calendars to join us ([link removed]) at 1:30 p.m. Central, Wednesday, March 3, for the next livestream event in our Soul Seeing for Lent series ([link removed]) . Host Michael Leach will chat with Natalia Imperatori-Lee, a professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. You can watch it live on Facebook ([link removed]) or on YouTube ([link removed]) . If you missed Leach's first guest, Franciscan Fr. Daniel Horan, you can watch it here ([link removed]) .

Until Monday,

Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Managing Editor
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Twitter: @ncrSLY ([link removed])

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