When the new editor of the Boston Globe, Martin Baron (who is Jewish), has a personal meeting with Cardinal Bernard Law at his residence, the Cardinal hands Baron a package. When Baron goes back to his car and opens the package, it is a large copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Law requested such a Catechism at the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1985, to deal with the changes wrought by Vatican II. It was completed in 1992, and it was the first universal catechism issued by the Church in over 400 years. In a February 2016 Washington Post article (titled "I'm in 'Spotlight', But It's Not Really About Me. It's About the Power of Journalism"), Marty Baron says that the copy of the Catechism used in the film is the very same one that he was really given by Cardinal Law at the end of their first meeting.

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