The church covered up for Father Frank Klep but failed, now he must spend...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 9 April 2019This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the large Catholic order of Salesian Fathers harboured an...
View ArticleCatholic priest charged over alleged child sex abuse at a NSW school
Police have charged a Catholic priest in Sydney for alleged sex-abuse against multiple children at a New South Wales country boarding school during the 1980s. Police allege that Father Anthony Caruana...
View ArticleVictims of this priest obtain justice after 36 years
By a Broken Rites researcherBroken Rites has researched a Catholic priest, Father Gregory Laurence Ferguson, who was sentenced to a total of five years' jail at two trials in 2007 for sexual offences...
View ArticleThis priest conducted "pastoral care" and "religious education" (wink-wink)...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 April 2019An Australian Catholic priest — Father Michael Ambrose Endicott— has been convicted in two courts (in 2010 and 2019) for offences committed in...
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 ArticleThe church protected Father John Farrell for 30 years but now he is in jail,...
By a Broken Rites researcherThis Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how Catholic Church leaders remained silent for 30 years about the child-sex crimes of Father...
View ArticleThe De La Salle Brothers had a sex-abuser to recruit new Brothers
By a Broken Rites researcherFor 25 years, the Catholic order of De La Salle Brothers had a sex-offender (Brother Fintan Dwyer) as their "vocations director", recruiting Australian teenagers to become...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years, but Broken...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 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 ArticleChristian Brother Peter Toomey pleads guilty regarding child-sex offences
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 8 May 2019Brother Peter John Toomey has been a member of the Christian Brothers Order since joining it in 1967 at the age of 18. He began a long career,...
View ArticleA classic cover-up, putting more children in danger
Research by Broken Rites Australia has found how the Catholic Church covered up sexual abuse by a religious Brother at a church school in Queensland. The cover-up enabled the offender to attack more...
View ArticleHow the church helped this criminal priest, Father Ron Pickering
By a Broken Rites researcher, updated 13 May 2019Broken Rites is doing further research about how the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese protected Father Ronald Pickering for many years while he committed...
View ArticleHow Christian Brother Daniel McMahon became "Father" Daniel McMahon
Broken Rites has discovered that the Catholic Church has made settlements with several former pupils who encountered Brother Daniel John Virgil McMahon while he was teaching in Christian Brothers boys'...
View ArticleFather David O'Hearn was a priest in parishes but later he was jailed
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 8 May 2019During the 1980s and 1890s, Father David Anthony O’Hearn worked in parishes in the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese, north of Sydney. Now he...
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 Christian Brother facing court in Melbourne
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 19 May 2019Christian Brother John Laidlaw has had a lifelong career, teaching in Catholic schools around Australia, especially in Melbourne. Now, in...
View ArticleThe church concealed the crimes of Father Vincent Ryan, giving him more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 May 2019This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how Catholic Church leaders knowingly protected a pedophile priest,...
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 ArticleAn ex-teacher, now 83, is facing child-sex charges regarding a Sydney school...
On 20 May 2019, New South Wales Police charged a former teacher (now aged 83) with having committed sexual crimes, more than 40 years ago, against a student (aged in his early teens) at a...
View ArticleGUILTY: A Catholic religious Brother committed buggery on a schoolboy
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 27 May 2019In May 2019, a Sydney jury has convicted a retired Catholic religious Brother (Brother Peter Higgins, now aged 80) for committing sexual...
View ArticleDoes the public have a right to know?
By a Broken Rites researcherIn court in late 2012, a Catholic religious Brother (Br Martin Harmata, of the Patrician Brothers order) was charged with sexually abusing children at a school in Sydney's...
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