The Spotlight team has become the foot in the door for all journalists to have the courage to be able to report the truth without fear of reprisals, and above all have the courage to report on something that no one wants to talk about and no one wants to hear. The Catholic Church had a strong hold on the Boston community at the time, it was not an easy decision to make to take on an organization that virtually controlled the minds of the majority of people in their lives . Another aspect that Globe journalists had to examine was the result of publishing this kind of story. When people start hearing about hundreds of cases of child sexual abuse by priests in their own backyard, it can start to cause widespread panic throughout the city about the safety of their children.