Spotlight (I) (2015)

Richard Jenkins: Richard Sipe

Quotes 

• Mike Rezendes : Do you still go to mass?

  Richard Sipe : No, I haven't been to church for some time now but I still consider myself a Catholic.

  Mike Rezendes : How does that work?

  Richard Sipe : The Church is an institution, Mike, made of men. It's passing. My faith is in the eternal. I try to separate the two.

• Richard Sipe : If you really want to understand the crisis, you have to start with the celicabacy requirement. That was my first major finding. Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects pedophiles.

• Richard Sipe : After the first major scandal in Louisiana, Tom Doyle, the secretary-canonist for the papal nuncio, coauthored a report warning that pedophile priests were a billion-dollar liability. That was in 1985.