This 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...
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By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 24 November 2019In November 2019, a Sydney court jailed a retired Catholic religious Brother (Brother Peter Higgins, now aged 81) for committing sexual...
View ArticleThe church has been forced to admit the crimes of Fr Patrick Cusack
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 27 November 2019Broken Rites is continuing its research about Father Patrick Cusack, a "highly respected" priest who committed sexual crimes against...
View ArticleA sexually abusive Christian Brother became a university lecturer who trained...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 27 November 2019Christian Brother Terence Anthony Simpson originally worked in Catholic schools in Queensland and New South Wales. At St Joseph's College...
View ArticleThe church gave this priest easy access to young victims, and some of them...
By a Broken Rites researcher,article updated 30 November 2019In 2019, Broken Rites is continuing its research about a pedophile priest, Father Charles Alfred Barnett, who was harboured by the Catholic...
View ArticleA priest (previously jailed regarding three boys) is in court again re a...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 2 December 2019In the early 1970s, a boy complained to the Catholic Church about being sexually abused by a Sydney priest (Father Robert Flaherty) but the...
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 ArticleThe church covered up the crimes of Brother John Laidlaw and gave him more...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 10 December 2019The leaders of the Christian Brothers knew that Brother John Laidlaw was committing sex crimes against boys in Catholic schools but he was...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother eventually became a priest — and now he admits child-sex...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 December 2019Originally, "Brother" Carl Edward Stafford was teaching in Marist Brothers schools in New South Wales. Then he left the Marists and worked...
View ArticleAn ex-Marist Brother in court in 2019 on child-sex charges from the 1960s
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 12 December 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 ArticleThe church finally admits the crimes of Father Lloyd Reynolds
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 15 December 2019The Catholic Church has been forced to admit the crimes of Father Lloyd Reynolds (now deceased), who (the church authorities say) was one of...
View ArticleA former student is suing the Jesuits, alleging sexual abuse at age 12
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 17 December 2019A former student of Melbourne's Xavier College is suing the Catholic religious order of Jesuit priests and brothers, seeking compensation...
View ArticleA former Marist Brother, now 81, is facing charges of child-sex abuse from 50...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 January 2020A former Marist Brother, Kevin Joseph Jewell, now aged 81, is involved in court proceedings regarding indecent assaults allegedly committed...
View ArticlePolice allege a priest assaulted 40 children during 30 years — now in 2020 he...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 January 2020For three decades until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett worked in Catholic parishes in north-western New South Wales. Now in 2020 (aged 82...
View ArticleThe Marist Brothers trained this pedophile, then they helped him to commit...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 16 January 2020)For many years, Marist Brother Francis William Cable (also known as "Brother Romuald") was committing sexual crimes against Catholic...
View ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 16 January 2020 Broken Rites has researched the cover-up of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham. Father Denham's...
View ArticleThis paedophile priest committed crimes against fatherless children
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 23 January 2020The Lismore Catholic diocese in northern New South Wales has been tackled by numerous victims who say they were sexually abused by Father...
View ArticleThe church concealed Christian Brother Neil Richards' crimes from the police...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated on 23 January 2020Catholic Church authorities knew for years about Christian Brother Desmond Eric ("Neil") Richards'sexual crimes against schoolboys in New...
View ArticleA priest (previously jailed regarding three boys) is in court again re a...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 3 December 2019In the early 1970s, a boy complained to the Catholic Church about being sexually abused by a Sydney priest (Father Robert Flaherty) but the...
View ArticleFather John Denham's life of crime (while church leaders covered up for him):...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 16 January 2020 Broken Rites has researched the cover-up of one of Australia's most notorious Catholic priests, Father John Sidney Denham. Father Denham's...
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