The Marist Brothers recycled an offender to a new position of trust
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Catholic order of Marist Brothers kept a Brother — John Desmond Dyson) — as a member after he was convicted of indecently assaulting boys in a Catholic school. The...
View ArticleMarist Brother 'Romuald' Cable, already jailed, awaits sentencing again...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 31 January 2019)For many years, Marist Brother Francis William Cable (also known as "Brother Romuald") was committing sexual crimes against Catholic...
View ArticleThe church re-abused this victim of Marist Brother Raymond Foster
By a Broken Rites researcherAn Australian sex-abuse victim has stated that he was made to feel like he was robbing the Catholic Church when he applied for compensation for his damaged life.In Sydney on...
View ArticleMarist 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 ArticleThe Church concealed Father Michael Aulsebrook's child-abuse crimes
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 3 February 2019The Australia-wide Salesian religious order operates Catholic schools in several Australian states, and it is notorious for tolerating...
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 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 ArticleJAILED: Marist Brother Graeme Mundine was a danger to children, and five of...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 7 February 2019Graeme Mundine (born in 1960 with an Aboriginal background) was educated by the Marist Brothers who eventually recruited him to become a...
View ArticleThe church covered up the crimes of Father Julian Fox
By a Broken Rites researcherBroken Rites is continuing its research about how the Catholic Church harboured a prominent Australian priest, Father Julian Fox, while he indecently assaulted vulnerable...
View ArticleAn ex-priest in NSW is facing court in 2019 on sex charges from 30 years ago
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 7 February 2019A former Catholic priest, James Joseph Cunneen, aged 59, is facing a court trial in New South Wales in 2019, charged with sexual offences...
View ArticleGUILTY: A Christian Brother is being sentenced in 2019 for offences from 40...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 11 February 2019)For several decades, Christian Brother Peter Nicholas Lennox worked in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in regional New South Wales....
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 ArticleVictims demanding compensation for abuse by a De La Salle Brother
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 14 February 2019Brother Anselm Hallan was a member of the Catholic order of De La Salle Brothers. For years, he behaved indecently against boys at Catholic...
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 concealed Father Michael Aulsebrook's child-abuse crimes. He...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 22 February 2019The Australia-wide Salesian religious order operates Catholic schools in several Australian states, and it is notorious for tolerating...
View ArticleA priest suddently died after police charged him — and now in 2019 one of...
Broken Rites is doing further research about how the Catholic Church harboured Father Daniel Dominic Hourigan, who committed sexual offences against children in the Sale diocese in eastern Victoria....
View ArticleA Catholic Brother facing court in 2019 regarding Monivae College, western...
An elderly Catholic religious Brother (John David Frith) is facing court in Melbourne in 2019, charged with offences allegedly committed some years ago against boys at a Catholic secondary school —...
View ArticleThe church sheltered this criminal while he damaged these 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 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 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...
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