Yet another "celibate" priest has pleaded guilty to child-sex crimes
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 11 September 2018Paul Chris Pavlou, of Melbourne, was once a school-teacher. Then he became a Brother in the Catholic Church's Salesian order. In 2004,...
View ArticleThe Confessional can enable a priest to abuse a young child
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 15 September 2018After being silent for eighty years, an elderly Australian woman ("Pamela") has revealed how the Catholic ritual of Confession enabled a...
View ArticleTwo people complain about abuse by a priest in the 1960s and 1980s
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 17 September 2018Father Brian John Morrison (born in Melbourne, 1933) was originally a Catholic priest in the Blessed Sacrament Fathers but he left this...
View ArticleA Catholic Brother facing court regarding Monivae College, western Victoria
Police detectives have charged an elderly Catholic religious Brother (John David Frith) with offences allegedly committed some years ago against boys at a Catholic secondary school — Monivae College,...
View ArticleThis priest became the deputy to a bishop, then was jailed and now is being...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 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 ArticleA senior priest covered up other priests' crimes — and he, too, abused children
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 20 September 2018In 2009, a senior clergyman in the Australian Catholic diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, Father Thomas Brennan, was convicted of making a...
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 25 September 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 religious Brother charged with sex offences against boys at Sydney's...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 27 September 2018Jesuit priests and brothers operate some of Australia's most prominent Catholic schools — for example, St Ignatius College Riverview in...
View ArticleBackground article: How the church protected Father Paul David Ryan for many...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 27 Sepember 2018 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleA Christian Brother committed rapes at a Catholic boys' school — and he is...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 4 October 2018Christian Brother John Francis Tyrrell has had a long career as a teacher and principal in Catholic schools in Melbourne and regional...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother became a lay teacher and then a priest — now he is...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 10 October 2018A Catholic priest (Father Carl Stafford, now aged 79) is listed for proceedings in the New South Wales District Court soon, charged with...
View ArticleBACKGROUND: Broken Rites helped victims of Father John Denham to gain justice
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 11 October 2018 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 covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years, but Broken...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 October 2018 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul David...
View ArticleThe church protected Father John Joseph Farrell for 30 years but now he is in...
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 ArticleA former priest on child-sex charges regarding boys from a Marist Brothers...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 18 October 2018A former Catholic priest, James Joseph Cunneen, aged 59, is due to face a trial in a New South Wales District Courrt in late 2018, charged...
View ArticleA Christian Brother is facing a court trial on charges from 40 years ago
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 19 October 2018)For several decades, Christian Brother Peter Nicholas Lennox worked in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in regional New South Wales....
View ArticleA Christian Brother in court in Melbourne
A Christian Brother, Rex Elmer (born in 1944), joined this religious order in 1961 when he was 16. He then began a long career teaching in Catholic schools in the Christian Brothers' Victoria-Tasmania...
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...
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