How 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 pleading guilty...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 6 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 ArticleA court is sentencing a Christian Brother in 2019 for offences he committed...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 1 March 2019)For several decades, Christian Brother Peter Nicholas Lennox worked in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in regional New South Wales. In...
View ArticleThis priest conducted "pastoral care" and "religious education" (wink-wink)...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 8 March 2019An Australian Catholic priest — Father Michael Ambrose Endicott— has been convicted in two courts (in 2010 and 2019) for offences committed in...
View ArticleThe church concealed Father Michael Aulsebrook's child-abuse crimes and put...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 9 March 2019The Australia-wide Salesian religious order operates Catholic schools in several Australian states, and it is notorious for tolerating...
View ArticleMarist Brother "Dominic" O'Sullivan is in jail and is facing more charges as...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 11 March 2019)A Marist Brother, Darcy John O'Sullivan (also known as "Brother Dominic"), is in jail for indecently assaulting boys while he was teaching in...
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 15 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 priest is charged regarding alleged incidents in Sydney in 1993
Article posted on 23 March 2019On 19 March 2019, New South Wales police charged a Catholic priest (Father Ron Peters) with having indecently assaulted a schoolboy in Sydney in 1993 (this was before Ron...
View ArticleA new Melbourne priest was abusing children from Day One, now he awaits...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 25 March 2019Father Paul Pavlou is a relatively recent recruit to Australia's Catholic priesthood. He was originally a school-teacher but, in his thirties,...
View ArticleAfter 30 years, a Christian Brother is convicted for a child-sex crime
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 27 March 2019A member of the Catholic order of Christian Brother (Brian McHugh) was convicted in court in August 2018 (aged 69) after pleading guilty to...
View ArticleMarist Brothers covered up the crimes of Brother "Kostka" Chute and kept...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 27 March 2019)This Broken Rites article tells how the Marist Brothers harboured a child-sex offender (Brother John William Chute) throughout his long...
View ArticleA Christian Brother is jailed in 2019 for offences he committed 40 years ago
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 29 March 2019)For several decades, Christian Brother Peter Nicholas Lennox worked in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in regional New South Wales. In...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted many children during 30 years. He is in...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 8 April 2019For 34 years until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett was a Catholic priest in New South Wales. In 2019 (aged 81) he is in a court process,...
View ArticleThis priest committed child-abuse at Melbourne's Xavier College but he went...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 8 April 2019A former student from Melbourne's Xavier College (we will refer to him as "Boris") has finally complained to the church authorities that in...
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