The 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 ArticleEx-priest says child-sex offences were normal among his colleagues
By a Broken Rites researcherA convicted priest (Father David Edwin Rapson, who belonged to one of Australia's most prominent Catholic religious orders, the Salesians) has "blown the whistle" on his...
View ArticleThe church gave this Sydney paedophile priest a new parish, with access to...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 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 researcherAccording to Broken Rites research, the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese has been forced to admit that Father Anthony (Tony) Bongiorno committed sexual crimes against children...
View ArticleBackground article: The career of Archbishop Philip Wilson
By a Broken Rites researcher, updated 6 December 2018This Broken Rites article is about the career of Australia's Archbishop Philip Wilson. Late in his career, police alleged that Wilson had covered up...
View ArticleThis priest was a danger to schoolgirls
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated December 2018Broken Rites is continuing its research about Father Damian Colbourne, who has spent many years as a priest in the Catholic order of Capuchin...
View ArticleHow the paedophile Father Denis McAlinden was inflicted on Australian children
By a Broken Rites researcher Research by Broken Rites has revealed that the Catholic Church knowingly harboured the paedophile priest Father Denis McAlinden for 40 years, thus inflicting him on young...
View ArticleChurch paid huge sums to lawyers to defend a criminal priest, Father James...
By a Broken Rites Australia researcherThe Catholic diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in New South Wales has admitted that it paid an expensive team of lawyers to defend a paedophile priest in a child-abuse...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted 30 children during 30 years (while church...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 14 December 2018For 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 ArticleThe Marist Brothers inflicted this criminal Brother on more victims
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 16 December 2018)This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Marist Brothers allowed the sex-abuse criminal Brother...
View ArticleHow the church enabled Fr Michael Glennon's life of crime
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 16 December 2018Broken Rites is continuing its research about how the Catholic Church enabled the paedophile priest Father Michael Charles Glennon to...
View ArticleA priest, now 84, is jailed for two years for crimes committed 50 years ago
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 19 December 2018Two former schoolboys (both now aged in their sixties) have finally brought a Catholic priest to justice in Australia for crimes that he...
View ArticleA new Melbourne priest was abusing children from Day One, now he awaits...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 26 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-Marist Brother became a lay teacher and then a priest — now he is...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 December 2018A Catholic priest (Father Carl Stafford, now aged 79) is listed for proceedings in the Sydney District Court, charged with child-sex...
View ArticleThis "chaplain" committed sexual offences in a girls’ orphanage (and his...
By a Broken Rites reseacher, article update 29 December 2018Broken Rites is doing further research about a Catholic priest, Father Bernard Maxwell Day, who was living at a girls' orphanage in Victoria...
View ArticleA Catholic Brother facing court in 2019 regarding Monivae College, western...
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,...
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