COVER-UP: A senior Australian Catholic is sentenced in court for concealing...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 30 September 2020One of Australia's most senior Marist Brothers — William Henry Wade (known as "Brother Christopher") — has made history as the first...
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By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 October 2020Broken Rites is doing further research about how the Catholic Church harboured Father Daniel Dominic Hourigan, who committed sexual offences...
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 ArticleHow was this priest able to get away with committing so many crimes for so...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 11 October 2020A Catholic priest in North Queensland, Father Neville Joseph Creen, used his priestly standing to hide his child-sex crimes from the police....
View ArticleMarist Brothers admit they harbored this criminal Brother
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 22 October 2020The Marist Brothers have been forced to acknowledge that yet another one of their members — Brother Thomas Joseph Butler (known as "Brother...
View ArticleThis priest (the deputy to a bishop) is jailed again and will face additional...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 August 2020In the 1970s and 1980s, Father Richard Cattell was a Catholic priest in western Sydney, where he committed sexual crimes against boys. In the...
View ArticleThe church acknowledges child-abuse at this orphanage but, as usual, it is...
By a Broken Rites researcherIn recent years, the Catholic order of Christian Brothers in Australia has made settlements (reluctantly) with sex-abuse victims of Brother Donald Pascal Alford at St...
View ArticleThe 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 in Australia protected Father Terry Pidoto for 25 years while he...
View ArticleA retired priest, aged 85, is accused of abusing a young boy many years ago
Broken Rites research has ascertained that Max Blumenthal (born in 1936) began his Catholic Church career in New South Wales as a member of the Marist Brothers (a religious order which provided...
View ArticleFather Peter Hansen left the priesthood and later he committed child sex...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted on 24 February 2021For 15 years until 2011, Father Peter Andrew Hansen was a priest belonging to the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese. He became a priest as a...
View ArticleA prominent churchman was convicted in regional NSW and then he lost an appeal
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 3 March 2021)Richard John McPhillamy has been a prominent layman in Catholic Church affairs in the diocese of Bathurst, in central-west New South Wales. He...
View ArticleAn elderly ex-priest is in jail until the year 2026 for crimes against children
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 12 March 2020In the 1960s, Brian Spillane began training towards a career in the Catholic priesthood. In 2020, he is in jail in New South Wales for sexual...
View ArticleA Catholic religious Brother awaits a criminal trial in 2021
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 February 2021An elderly Catholic religious Brother (John David Frith) has been ordered to undergo a criminal trial, with a jury, in the Australian state...
View ArticleA priest suddently died after police charged him — and now one of his...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 October 2020Broken Rites is doing further research about how the Catholic Church harboured Father Daniel Dominic Hourigan, who committed sexual offences...
View ArticleThe church protected "Father F" for 30 years but eventually he was jailed
By a Broken Rites researcherThis Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how Catholic Church leaders remained silent for 30 years about the child-sex crimes of Father...
View ArticleA Marist Brother is convicted regarding offences at a prominent Sydney school
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 16 April 2021New South Wales police have conducted criminal proceedings against Marist Brother John Patrick O'Brien (born in 1940) over child-sex offences...
View ArticleThe church hid the crimes of Christian Brother Edward Dowlan — but victims...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 May 2021 This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Christian Brothers organisation concealed the crimes of...
View ArticleA senior Catholic priest is facing charges in Australia from the 1970s
A senior priest in the Jesuit religious order - Father Theo Overberg - began facing court in New South Wales in 2020 regarding sex offences which were allegedly committed in the 1970s against boys at...
View ArticleThe church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years but...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 5 May 2021 This Broken Rites Australia article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleA former Marist Brother, now 82, is jailed for crimes committed 50 years ago
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 24 May 2021In the Sydney District Court on 14 May 2021, a former Marist Brother, Kevin Joseph Jewell, now aged 82, was sentenced to jail for indecently...
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