Marist Brothers admit suicides by sex-abuse victims
By a Broken Rites researcher, updated 1 February 2019Broken Rites Australia is doing research about adults who have suffered a premature death while still feeling damaged by church child-abuse (and by...
View ArticleThese victims obtained justice, supported by Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcherResearch by Broken Rites has revealed that a former trainee Catholic priest (Gregory Vincent Coffey) was sentenced in South Australia for a child-sex crime and then, despite...
View ArticleBackground article: Disabled boys were abused in a Catholic institution in NSW
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 6 February 2019One of Australia’s Catholic religious orders – the St John of God Brothers – has specialised in accommodating boys who have an educational...
View ArticleThe church has been forced to admit the crimes of Fr Patrick Cusack
By a Broken Rites researcherBroken Rites is continuing its research about Father Patrick Cusack, a "highly respected" priest who committed sexual crimes against primary school girls in the...
View ArticleThe church concealed the crimes of Father Vincent Ryan. Now he faces more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 18 January 2019This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how Catholic Church leaders knowingly protected a pedophile...
View ArticleThe church sheltered this criminal while he damaged some vulnerable young lives
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 March 2019Broken Rites is currently doing further research about how the Catholic order of Christian Brothers enabled Brother William Peter ("Dave")...
View ArticlePaedophile priest Peter Searson worked under various bishops in Melbourne
By a Broken Rites researcher For years, the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese knew that Father Peter Searson was committing sexual offences against boys, girls and women but he was allowed to continue in...
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 5 March 2019In the 1960s, Brian Spillane began training towards a career in the Catholic priesthood. In 2019, he is in jail in New South Wales for sexual...
View ArticleChurch victims should report church crimes to the police detectives, as shown...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 4 March 2019This article explains why Broken Rites Australia advises church-abuse victims to have a chat with child-protection detectives in the state...
View ArticleHow Broken Rites helped to reveal the crimes of Father Kenin O'Donnell
By a Broken Rites researcherOne of Australia's most notorious paedophile priests, Father Kevin O'Donnell, committed sexual crimes against children throughout his 50-year career in Melbourne Catholic...
View ArticleIt is never too late to have a chat with the detectives, as this case proves
By a Broken Rites researcherThis court case is an example of how it is possible for victims of church child-abuse to get their perpetrator convicted many years after the abuse. In the 1970s, Marist...
View ArticleThe church covered up for this priest but failed, now he is in jail facing...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 7 March 2019This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the large Catholic order of Salesian Fathers harboured an...
View ArticleMarist Brother 'Romuald' Cable, already jailed, awaits sentencing again...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 8 March 2019)For many years, Marist Brother Francis William Cable (also known as "Brother Romuald") was committing sexual crimes against Catholic...
View ArticleThe church gave this paedophile priest a new parish, putting more children in...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 11 March 2019)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against...
View ArticleBroken Rites helped victims of Father John Denham to gain justice, and now...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 11 March 2019 Broken Rites has helped to obtain justice for victims of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham....
View ArticleThe church concealed Christian Brother Neil Richards' crimes from the police...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 12 March 2019Catholic Church authorities knew for years about Christian Brother Desmond Eric ("Neil") Richards'sexual crimes against schoolboys in New...
View ArticleThis "celibate" priest (a supporter of George Pell) is facing controversy
By a Broken Rites researcherDuring George Pell's rise from being a priest to a cardinal, one of his supporters has been Melbourne priest John Walshe. The Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has confirmed...
View ArticleA church report in 2002 contains allegations about George Pell abusing an...
Australia's Catholic Church hierarchy received a complaint in 2002 that a trainee priest (George Pell) had sexually abused a twelve-year-old altar boy (named Phil) in 1961-1962 at a holiday camp for...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years, but Broken...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 March 2019 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul David...
View ArticleA new Melbourne priest was abusing children from Day One, now he is being...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 28 March 2019Father Paul Pavlou is a relatively recent recruit to Australia's Catholic priesthood. He was originally a school-teacher but, in his thirties,...
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