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April 05, 2005
Church abuse play wins Pulitzer
A play about child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Doubt, by Oscar-winning writer John Patrick Shanley, won the prize just two days after the death of the Pope.
The play is about a priest accused of molesting a boy. It comes after a damaging scandal in the US Catholic Church that implicated 4,000 priests.
Stars including Harvey Keitel and David Hasselhoff turned up when Doubt opened on Broadway last week after an acclaimed off-Broadway run.
Set in 1964 in The Bronx, where Mr Shanley grew up, it sees a nun confront a well-liked parish priest who she believes is abusing a 12-year-old boy.
"The play very much relates to religion," he said. "And the parable is a key way of talking about issues, ideas and moralities."
Last year, a report commissioned by the Church said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years in cases involving more than 10,000 children, mostly boys.
Posted by Nealus at April 5, 2005 12:06 PM
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