Victims of Fr Paul "Rex" Brown were re-abused by Towards Healing
By a Broken Rites researcher Broken Rites is researching how the Catholic Church harboured a paedophile priest, Father Paul Rex Brown, allowing him to commit sexual crimes against boys and girls in...
View ArticleChurch victims should report church crimes to the police detectives, as shown...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 14 June 2019This article explains why Broken Rites Australia advises church-abuse victims to have a chat with child-protection detectives in the state...
View ArticleFull story: Father Ridsdale's life of crime — and the church's cover-up
Background article, by a Broken Rites researcherThis Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Catholic Church shuffled a paedophile priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale,...
View ArticleSecrets of the Confessional (wink, wink): A priest raped a boy, then used...
By a Broken Rites researcherIn Australia the Catholic Church is publicly defending the "secrecy of the Confessional". This Broken Rites article is about a Melbourne priest, Father James Scannell, who...
View ArticleThis "celibate" priest is facing controversy
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 27 June 2019During George Pell's rise from being a priest to a cardinal, one of his supporters has been Melbourne priest John Walshe. The Melbourne...
View ArticleBroken Rites helped the victims of Fr Robert Claffey to obtain justice
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 8 July 2019)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against children...
View ArticleThe church covered up the crimes of Father Daniel Lyne
By a Broken Rites researcher The Catholic religious order of Passionist priests covered up for a serious child-abuser, Father Daniel Lyne, while he committed sexual crimes against teenage boys who were...
View ArticleThe church keeps a priest after a payout to an ex-pupil
By a Broken Rites researcher A former Australian Catholic bishop has confirmed that he appointed a priest (Father Guy Hartcher) to administer a parish after the church had paid a $40,000 settlement...
View ArticleThese three victims have extracted a settlement from the Marist Brothers
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Catholic religious order of Marist Brothers in Australia have been forced to make out-of-court settlements with three former Catholic schoolchildren (two males and one...
View ArticleMarist Brother Malcolm Hall died during prosecution for child-sex crimes
By a Broken Rites researcherIn the 1950s and 1960s, prominent Marist Brother Malcolm Hall was sexually abusing boys and girls in four country towns around Australia. Today, half a century later, his...
View ArticleThis bishop protected the church's "holy" image, instead of protecting children
By a Broken Rites researcher Broken Rites research has discovered how an Australian Catholic leader (Bishop William Brennan) covered up allegations of clergy sex-abuse in his diocese. Police charged...
View ArticleThis priest became the deputy to a bishop, then was jailed and now is in...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 10 July 2019In the 1970s and 1980s, Father Richard Cattell was a Catholic priest in western Sydney. In the early 1990s, the Catholic Church promoted...
View ArticleThis priest, now in jail, is facing another court case regarding an...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 May 2019During the 1980s and 1980s, Father David Anthony O’Hearn worked in parishes in the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese, north of Sydney. Now he...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years, but he is...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 July March 2019 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleThe church covered up the crimes of Brother John Laidlaw and gave him more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 July 2019The leaders of the Christian Brothers knew that Brother John Laidlaw was committing sex crimes against boys in Catholic schools but he was...
View ArticleThe church has made payments to settle these complaints about abuse of...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 June 2019The Catholic Church has paid settlements to men who allege that they were abused many years ago by Father Roger Mount while he was a Brother in...
View ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 28 July 2019 Broken Rites has researched the cover-up of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham. Father Denham's...
View ArticleA Catholic priest in court over alleged child sex abuse at a NSW school
Article updated 1 August 2019A Catholic priest has appeared in court in New South Wales in 2019, facing charges of sex-abuse allegedly committed against multiple children at a New South Wales country...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted 37 children during 30 years (while church...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 6 August 2019For three decades until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett was a Catholic priest in New South Wales. In 2019 (aged 82) he is in a court...
View ArticleGUILTY: A Catholic religious Brother committed buggery on a schoolboy
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 June 2019In May 2019, a Sydney court convicted a retired Catholic religious Brother (Brother Peter Higgins, now aged 80) for committing sexual offences...
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