The crimes of this Franciscan Brother were covered up
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Australian headquarters of the Franciscans (the Order of Friars Minor) have been forced to acknowledge that Brother Paschal Bartlett was a child-abuser. Brother Paschal...
View ArticleBroken Rites helped the victims of Fr Robert Claffey to obtain justice
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 18 July 2019)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against children...
View ArticleThe church covered up the crimes of Brother John Laidlaw and gave him more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 July 2019The leaders of the Christian Brothers knew that Brother John Laidlaw was committing sex crimes against boys in Catholic schools but he was...
View ArticleA priest died after being charged in court with a sexual offence
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 16 August 2019Broken Rites is doing further research about a Queensland Catholic priest, Fr Michael Joseph McKeaten, who was charged by police in court...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother in court in 2019 on child-sex charges from the 1960s
In 1960 at the age of 17, Joseph Weygood began training in Victoria to become a Marist Brother. In those years, the Marists gave each new recruit a religious name, so Joseph Weygood became known to...
View ArticleA Catholic priest in court over alleged child sex abuse at a NSW boarding school
Article updated 1 September 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...
View ArticleFather Peter L. Comensoli was jailed but was allowed to remain "reverend"
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 3 September 2019This Broken Rites article gives another Australian example of a Catholic priest who was not immediately laicized after being jailed for...
View ArticleThe church helped a pedophile Marist Brother to get easy access to young victims
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 6 September 2019Broken Rites is doing research about a senior Marist Brother (Brother Kevin Hopson, also known as Brother "Crispin" Hopson) who taught...
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 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 ArticleBroken Rites helped the victims of Fr Robert Claffey to obtain justice
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 18 July 2019)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against children...
View ArticleThe church protected Father Vic Rubeo but Broken Rites has exposed this...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 11 September 2019)Research by Broken Rites has revealed how the Catholic Church harboured this abusive priest, Father Victor Gabriel Rubeo, for three...
View ArticleThe church hid the crimes of Brother Edward Dowlan — and he became "Mister...
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 ArticleThis reverend Brother (already in jail in Victoria) now pleads guity to more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 13 September 2019When Frank Keating became a De La Salle Brother in his late teens, he was given the religious name "Brother Ibar", in honour of an ancient...
View ArticleHow 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 ArticleHow the church helped this criminal priest, Father Ron Pickering
By a Broken Rites researcherBroken Rites is doing further research about how the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese protected Father Ronald Pickering for many years while he committed crimes against...
View ArticleBroken Rites has researched Ronald Conway, the church's "hands-on" psychologist
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 15 September 2019For thirty years a prominent Australian Catholic psychologist, Ronald Conway, had a part-time role in assessing and helping trainee...
View ArticleHow the church concealed Father Terry Pidoto's life of crime: FULL STORY
By a Broken Rites reseacher This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Catholic Church protected Father Terry Pidoto for 25 years while he committed crimes...
View ArticleChurch victims should report church crimes to the police detectives, as shown...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 September 2019This article explains why Broken Rites Australia advises church-abuse victims to have a chat with child-protection detectives in the state...
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...
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