How the church enabled Fr Michael Glennon's life of crime
By a Broken Rites researcherBroken Rites is continuing its research about how the Catholic Church enabled the paedophile priest Father Michael Charles Glennon to commit sexual crimes against children...
View ArticleThis "celibate" priest fathered two children, his colleagues say
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Catholic Church advertises its priests as being "celibate", but priests can have private relationships (either "gay" or "straight") if this is hidden from the public....
View ArticleThe priest and the schoolgirl — and an abortion
By a Broken Rites researcher Broken Rites is doing further research about a Sydney Catholic priest, Father Kevin Cox, who sexually abused vulnerable girls. For example, one victim (Broken Rites will...
View ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 June 2019 Broken Rites has helped to obtain justice for victims of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham. Father...
View ArticleA Christian Brother, now elderly, is facing court in Melbourne on child-abuse...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 4 June 2019Christian Brother John Laidlaw has had a lifelong career, teaching in Catholic schools around Australia, especially in Melbourne. In 2019, now...
View ArticleThe church hid the crimes of Brother Ted Dowlan — but Broken Rites helped to...
By a Broken Rites researcher This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Christian Brothers organisation concealed the crimes of Brother Edward Dowlan (now known...
View ArticleA "priest without a parish" is scheduled for a criminal court trial on...
By a Broken Rites researcherFor 25 years, Father Peter Maurice Waters ministered in a series of parishes of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese. In 1999, when he was aged in his fifties, the archdiocese...
View ArticleA sexually abusive Christian Brother became a university lecturer who trained...
Christian Brother Terence Simpson worked in Catholic schools in Queensland and New South Wales. In the 1960s, he was indecently assaulting his pupils at St Joseph's College in Gregory Terrace in...
View ArticleThese victims, now in their fifties, bring an offender to justice after 36 years
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 12 June 2019A former teacher, Kevin Wilmore Myers, now aged 73, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 11 June 2019, charged with having committed...
View ArticleVictims of Fr Paul "Rex" Brown were re-abused by Towards Healing
By a Broken Rites researcher Broken Rites is researching how the Catholic Church harboured a paedophile priest, Father Paul Rex Brown, allowing him to commit sexual crimes against boys and girls in...
View ArticleChurch victims should report church crimes to the police detectives, as shown...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 14 June 2019This article explains why Broken Rites Australia advises church-abuse victims to have a chat with child-protection detectives in the state...
View ArticleFull story: Father Ridsdale's life of crime — and the church's cover-up
Background article, by a Broken Rites researcherThis Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Catholic Church shuffled a paedophile priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale,...
View ArticleGUILTY: A Catholic religious Brother committed buggery on a schoolboy
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 June 2019In May 2019, a Sydney court convicted a retired Catholic religious Brother (Brother Peter Higgins, now aged 80) for committing sexual offences...
View ArticleSecrets of the Confessional (wink, wink): A priest raped a boy, then used...
By a Broken Rites researcherIn Australia the Catholic Church is publicly defending the "secrecy of the Confessional". This Broken Rites article is about a Melbourne priest, Father James Scannell, who...
View ArticleA Christian Brother, now 80, is facing charges in Melbourne from 55 years ago
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 June 2019Christian Brother John Laidlaw has had a lifelong career, teaching in Catholic schools around Australia, especially in the state of Victoria....
View ArticleThis "celibate" priest is facing controversy
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 27 June 2019During George Pell's rise from being a priest to a cardinal, one of his supporters has been Melbourne priest John Walshe. The Melbourne...
View ArticleOne of Australia's leading Christian Brothers has been jailed after pleading...
By a Broken Rites researcher, 28 June 2019Christian Brother Terence Patrick Aquinas Kingston had a 40-year career as a teacher and administrator in Australian Catholic boys' schools — and he became one...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother became a lay teacher and then a priest — now he is...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 28 June 2019A Catholic priest (Father Carl Stafford, born in 1939) is listed for proceedings in the Sydney District Court, charged with child-sex abuse...
View ArticleBroken Rites helped the victims of Fr Robert Claffey to obtain justice
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 7 July 2019)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against children...
View ArticleThis bishop protected the church's holy image, instead of protecting children
By a Broken Rites researcher Broken Rites research has discovered how an Australian Catholic leader (Bishop William Brennan) covered up allegations of clergy sex-abuse in his diocese. Police charged...
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