Broken Rites helped Australia's child-abuse Royal Commission
By a Broken Rites researcher (first version posted in early 2013, updated on 18 November 2017)On 14 December 2017, Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will...
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By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 20 November 2017)Christian Brother Stephen Francis Farrell was one of the child-abusers who taught at Australia's notorious St Alipius parish school in...
View ArticleThis priest became the deputy to a bishop, then was jailed and now is in...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 November 2017A senior Catholic priest from western Sydney, Father Richard Cattell, committed sexual crimes against boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Later,...
View ArticleFather Paul David Ryan was protected by the church, but victims got him...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 November 2017 This Broken Rites article reveals how Catholic Church authorities covered up the child-sex crimes of an Australian priest, Father Paul...
View ArticleThis bishop protected the church's holy image, instead of protecting children
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 23 November 2017)Broken Rites research has discovered how an Australian Catholic leader (Bishop William Brennan) covered up allegations of clergy sex-abuse...
View ArticleA former priest on child-sex charges regarding boys at a Marist Brothers school
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted on 24 November 2017A former Catholic priest, James Joseph Cunneen, aged 58. was charged in a Sydney court on 23 November 2017 with multiple sexual offences...
View ArticleMarist Brother Chrisopher Wade convicted on child-sex-charges in NSW. He is...
By a Broken Rites researcher, 25 November 2017A senior Marist Brother, William Henry Wade (known as "Brother Christopher"), has worked in Marist schools in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane and Canberra. On...
View ArticleThese victims obtained justice, supported by Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated on 3 December 2017)Research by Broken Rites has revealed that a former trainee Catholic priest (Gregory Vincent Coffey) was sentenced in South Australia...
View ArticlePaedophile priest Peter Searson worked under various bishops, including...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 5 December 2017For years, the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese knew that Father Peter Searson was committing sexual offences against boys, girls and women...
View ArticleFull story: Father Ridsdale's life of crime — and the church's cover-up
Background article, by a Broken Rites researcher, updated 6 December 2017This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about how the Catholic Church shuffled a paedophile...
View ArticleGeorge Pell returns to Australia: Some background
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 11 December 2017After he moved from Australia to Rome in 2014 for a senior role in the Vatican, Cardinal George Pell became reluctant to re-visit...
View ArticleThe church versus Anthony and Chrissie Foster: Some background
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 12 December 2017One of Australia's most notorious paedophile priests, Father Kevin O'Donnell, committed sexual crimes against children throughout his...
View ArticleThis criminal priest, Monsignor John Day, was helped by the church's cover-up
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 12 December 2017 Broken Rites has forced the Catholic Church to admit that it protected one of Australia's worst paedophile priests, Monsignor John Day,...
View ArticleBackground article: The church gave the paedophile priest Robert Claffey a...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 14 December 2017)This Broken Rites article gives some background about how a Catholic priest, Father Robert Claffey, committed sexual offences against...
View ArticleA Marist Brother, 77, is charged over alleged historic child-sex offences
A Marist Brother, now aged 77, has been ordered to appear in court in January 2018 charged over child-sex offences allegedly committed in Sydney about 50 years ago. Police allege that the offences...
View ArticleThe church's 50-year cover-up of Father Finian Egan's crimes
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 19 December 2017Catholic priest Finian James Egan began committing sexual crimes against numerous Australian children in 1961 but the Catholic Church...
View ArticleA former Marist Brother, now 79, is named in court on charges from the 1960s
Article by Broken Rites, updated on 19 December 2017A 79-year-old former Marist Brother, Kevin Joseph Jewell, has been charged in court in late 2017 with indecent assaults allegedly committed against...
View ArticleA church report contains allegations about George Pell abusing an altar boy...
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 ArticleMelbourne priest Peter Waters in court in 2018
Article updated on 29 December 2017Father Peter Waters was a priest in parishes of the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese until he took early retirement in 1999, when he was aged in his fifties. In 2017,...
View ArticleHow the church helped this criminal priest, Father Ron Pickering
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Melbourne Catholic archdiocese protected Father Ronald Pickering for many years while he committed crimes against children in his parishes. Eventually he fled from...
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