A bishop's deputy committed crimes against young girls
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 24 October 2019)The Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" process has received complaints about a senior Australian cleric, Monsignor Maurice Tully, who had...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother eventually became a priest — and now he admits child-sex...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 14 September 2019Originally, "Brother" Carl Edward Stafford was teaching in Marist Brothers schools in New South Wales. Then he left the Marists and worked...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years but now he...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 17 September 2019 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleThis reverend Brother (already in jail in Victoria) now pleads guilty to more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 16 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 ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother in court in 2019 on child-sex charges from the 1960s
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 28 October 2019In 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...
View ArticleA priest suddently died after police charged him — and now in 2019 one of...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 18 October 2019Broken Rites is doing further research about how the Catholic Church harboured Father Daniel Dominic Hourigan, who committed sexual offences...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted 37 children during 30 years (while church...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 November 2019For three decades until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett was a Catholic priest in New South Wales. In 2019 (aged 82) he is in a court...
View ArticleA former Marist Brother, now 81, is facing charges of child-sex abuse from 50...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 November 2019A former Marist Brother, Kevin Joseph Jewell, now aged 81, is involved in court proceedings regarding indecent assaults allegedly committed...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years but now he...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 November 2019 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleThe church has been forced to admit the crimes of Fr Patrick Cusack
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 6 November 2019Broken Rites is continuing its research about Father Patrick Cusack, a "highly respected" priest who committed sexual crimes against primary...
View ArticleThis reverend Brother (already in jail in Victoria) now pleads guilty to more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 8 November 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 ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 12 November 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 ArticleBreaking news: Yet another Catholic priest is jailed in New South Wales
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 14 November 2019.Father Dennis Byrnes had a long career as a priest in parishes on the New South Wales north coast. Between 2016 and 2019, Byrnes underwent...
View ArticleThis reverend Brother (already in jail in Victoria) now pleads guilty to more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 8 November 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 ArticleA priest gets more jail time after yet another victim speaks to the police
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 8 November 2019The Australia-wide Salesian religious order operates Catholic schools in several Australian states, and it is notorious for tolerating...
View ArticleBroken Rites helped the victims of Fr Robert Claffey to obtain justice
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 11 November 2019)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Frank Klep but failed, now he is spending...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 15 November 2019This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the large Catholic order of Salesian Fathers harboured an...
View ArticleJAILED: A Melbourne priest sexually abused five boys in the 1970s and 1980s
By a Broken Rites researcher, 17 November 2019For 25 years until 1999, Father Peter Maurice Waters ministered in parishes of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese. This priestly role enabled him to...
View ArticleThis reverend Brother (now aged 72) will be in jail until he is in his nineties
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 19 November 2019One of Australia’s Catholic religious orders – the St John of God Brothers – has specialised in accommodating boys who have an educational...
View ArticleUPDATE: Police allege a priest assaulted 40 children during 30 years — now...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 2 November 2019For three decades until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett worked in Catholic parishes in north-western New South Wales. Now aged 82 (and...
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