The church knew about this priest's crimes but gave him further victims
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 9 July 2019Broken Rites is researching Father Kevin Wright, who spent many years in the Wagga diocese which covers a large region in southern New South...
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By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 10 July 2019In the 1970s and 1980s, Father Richard Cattell was a Catholic priest in western Sydney. In the early 1990s, the Catholic Church promoted...
View ArticleA priest is charged regarding alleged incidents in Sydney in 1993
Article updated 10 July 2019In 2019, New South Wales police have charged a Catholic priest (Father Ron Peters) with having indecently assaulted a schoolboy in Sydney in 1993 (this was before Ron Peters...
View ArticleThe ritual of "Confession" helped a priest to abuse a young girl
By a Broken Rites researcherAn Australian woman, who allegedly suffered sexual abuse by a Catholic priest when she was just six years old, has finally broken her silence after 50 years. At the age of...
View ArticleInside story: Broken Rites knew about these two abusive priests
By a Broken Rites researcherIn 1993, Broken Rites Australia began researching sexually-abusive Catholic priests, including Fr Ronald Pickering and Fr John Stockdale. Eighteen years later, in September...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years, but Broken...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 July March 2019 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleA young female victim defeats the church's lawyers, with help from Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcherIf a victim of clergy sexual abuse wishes to sue the Catholic Church for damages, the victim’s chances of success are much greater if he/she can demonstrate that the church...
View ArticleA "priest without a parish" is scheduled for a criminal court trial on...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 26 July 2019For 25 years, Father Peter Maurice Waters ministered in a series of parishes of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese. In 1999, when he was aged...
View ArticleInside story: Broken Rites knew about these two abusive priests
By a Broken Rites researcherIn 1993, Broken Rites Australia began researching sexually-abusive Catholic priests, including Fr Ronald Pickering and Fr John Stockdale. Eighteen years later, in September...
View ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 28 July 2019 Broken Rites has researched the cover-up of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham. Father Denham's...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years but now he...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 29 July 2019 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul David...
View ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 28 July 2019 Broken Rites has researched the cover-up of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham. Father Denham's...
View ArticleA Catholic priest in court over alleged child sex abuse at a NSW school
Article updated 1 August 2019A Catholic priest has appeared in court in New South Wales in 2019, facing charges of sex-abuse allegedly committed against multiple children at a New South Wales country...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother became a lay teacher and then a priest — now he is due...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 2 August 2019A Catholic priest (Father Carl Stafford, born in 1939) is listed for proceedings in the Sydney District Court in 2019, charged with child-sex...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted 37 children during 30 years (while church...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 6 August 2019For three decades until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett was a Catholic priest in New South Wales. In 2019 (aged 81) he is in a court...
View ArticleA priest died after being charged in court with a sexual offence
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 15 August 2019Broken Rites is doing further research about a Queensland Catholic priest, Fr Michael Joseph McKeaten, who was charged by police in court...
View ArticleThe Jesuits covered up for a criminal Brother and merely moved him to more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 18 August 2019Jesuit priests and brothers operate some of Australia's most prominent schools, with famous ex-students such as former prime minister Tony...
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 ArticleThis "celibate" priest (a supporter of George Pell) is facing controversy
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 August 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 ArticleA "priest without a parish" is scheduled for a criminal court trial on...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 26 July 2019For 25 years, Father Peter Maurice Waters ministered in a series of parishes of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese. In 1999, when he was aged...
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