The Jesuits covered up for a sexually abusive Brother and merely moved him to...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 12 October 2018Jesuit priests and brothers operate some of Australia's most prominent schools, with famous ex-students such as former prime minister...
View ArticleThe church protected Father John Farrell for 30 years but now he is in jail...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 12 March 2018)This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how Catholic Church leaders remained silent for 30 years about...
View ArticleThe church covered up a reverend Brother’s crimes but in 2018 he is jail with...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 October 2018When Frank Keating became a De La Salle Brother in his late teens, he was given the religious name "Brother Ibar", in honour of an ancient...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted 30 children during 30 years (while church...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 18 October 2017For 34 years until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett was a Catholic priest in New South Wales. In 2018 (aged 81 and retired) he has been...
View ArticleMarist Brother 'Romuald' Cable, already jailed, pleads guilty again in...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 25 October 2018)For many years, Marist Brother Francis William Cable (also known as "Brother Romuald") was committing sexual crimes against Catholic...
View ArticleThe church covered up for this priest but failed, now he is pleading guilty...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 29 October 2018This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the large Catholic order of Salesian Fathers harboured an...
View ArticleSuicide #2: The church left an ex-altar boy, Daniel Powell, to take his own...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article update 1 November 2018)The Catholic Church authorities have accepted a complaint from a former altar boy, Daniel Powell, that he was sexually abused in a Sydney...
View ArticleSuicide #1: How the church destroyed the life of altar boy Damian Jurd in...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 1 November 2018)In the late 1990s, the Catholic Church paid a small amount to a former altar boy, Damian Jurd, to settle his complaint about having been...
View ArticleThese three victims forced the Marist Brothers to apologise
By a Broken Rites researcherThe leaders of Australia's Marist Brothers have apologised to three ex-pupils of a very senior Marist, who was known as Brother Bertinus. These three ex-pupils went to...
View ArticleThe church concealed the crimes of Father Vincent Ryan. Now he faces more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 12 November 2018This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how Catholic Church leaders knowingly protected a pedophile...
View ArticleVictims of Father Gannon defeated a cover-up, with help from Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcherThis article explains why Broken Rites Australia advises church-abuse victims to have a chat with child-protection detectives in the victim's state police force. The...
View ArticlePart-time "celibacy": How Jane was left holding a priest's baby
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Catholic Church in Australia has apologized to a vulnerable woman who was a victim of "nine-to-five" priestly celibacy. The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has accepted...
View ArticleThe Jesuits covered up for a sexually abusive Brother and merely moved him to...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 19 November 2018Jesuit priests and brothers operate some of Australia's most prominent schools, with famous ex-students such as former prime minister...
View ArticleA new Melbourne priest was abusing children from Day One, now he awaits...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 December 2018Father Paul Chris Pavlou is a relatively recent recruit to Australia's Catholic priesthood. He was originally a school-teacher but, in his...
View ArticleAn ex-priest, 75, is charged with raping a 10-year-old boy in a public toilet...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 November 2018In the 1960s, Brian Spillane began training towards a career in the Catholic priesthood. In 2018, he is in jail in New South Wales for...
View ArticleA Marist Brother has been jailed for some of his victims, but another...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 21 November 2018Australian Marist Brother David Christian was recruited by the Marist Brothers at the age of 15 and became a fully-fledged Brother at 18....
View ArticleThe church gave this Sydney paedophile priest a new parish, with access to...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 23 November 2018In the early 1970s, a boy complained to the Catholic Church about being sexually abused by a Sydney priest (Father Robert Flaherty) but the...
View ArticleThis priest became the deputy to a bishop, then was jailed and now is in...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 24 September 2018In the 1970s and 1980s, Father Richard Cattell was a Catholic priest in western Sydney. In the early 1990s, the Catholic Church promoted...
View ArticleThe church concealed Christian Brother Neil Richards' crimes from the police...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 26 November 2018Catholic Church authorities knew for years about Christian Brother Desmond Eric ("Neil") Richards'sexual crimes against schoolboys in...
View ArticleThe church finally admits the child-sex crimes of Father Tony Bongiorno
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 December 2018According to Broken Rites research, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has been forced to admit that Father Anthony (Tony) Bongiorno...
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