BACKGROUND: The rise and fall of Archbishop Philip Wilson, who covered up...
By a Broken Rites researcher, updated 3 July 2018A prominent Australian Catholic Church leader, Archbishop Philip Wilson, has claimed that, during his rise from junior priest to church administrator,...
View ArticleThe church concealed Christian Brother Neil Richards' crimes but more victims...
By a Broken Rites researcher Catholic Church authorities knew for years about Christian Brother Desmond Eric ("Neil") Richards'sexual crimes against schoolboys in New South Wales but the crimes were...
View ArticleMarist Brother 'Romuald' Cable, already jailed, is facing more charges
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 10 July 2018)A few years ago, Broken Rites helped to obtain justice for schoolboys who were sexually assaulted by Marist Brother Francis William Cable...
View ArticleChristian Brother Peter Lennox is awaiting a court trial on charges from 40...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 10 July 2018)For several decades, Christian Brother Peter Nicholas Lennox worked in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in regional New South Wales. Now...
View ArticleThe church concealed Christian Brother Neil Richards' crimes but more victims...
By a Broken Rites researcher Catholic Church authorities knew for years about Christian Brother Desmond Eric ("Neil") Richards'sexual crimes against schoolboys in New South Wales but the crimes were...
View ArticleTwo female victims received an official apology but not much compensation
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 1 July 2018The Catholic Church in Australia has apologised to two women for child-abuse committed by an archbishop’s uncle. The Broken Rites victim support...
View ArticleThis priest, convicted in 2014, is facing more charges in 2018 relating to...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 13 July 2018On 24 July 2014, Catholic priest, Father Patrick Holmes (then aged 79), was jailed for sexually abusing two young girls in Western Australia...
View ArticleA Sydney priest has been jailed for at least five years for child-sex crimes
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 17 July 2018Broken Rites is doing further research about Father Robert James Hickman, who became a Catholic priest in Sydney in the 1970s. As well as...
View ArticleThe church harboured this pedophile Marist Brother and now in 2018 he admits...
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 18 July 2018)This Broken Rites article reveals how the Catholic Church harboured a child-sex abuser, Marist Brother Gerard Joseph McNamara, teaching in...
View ArticleA church report in 2002 contains allegations about George Pell abusing an...
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 ArticleThe church gave this Sydney paedophile priest a new parish, plus more children
By a Broken Rites researcher In the early 1970s, a boy (this article will refer to him as "Boy A") complained to the Catholic Church about being sexually abused by a Sydney priest, but the church...
View ArticleComplaints by ex-students of Chevalier College (in Bowral, New South Wales)
Some ex-pupils of Chevalier College (a Catholic high school near Bowral in southern New South Wales) are still recalling allegations that a Catholic priest behaved indecently towards young boys at the...
View ArticleChurch paid huge sums to lawyers to defend a criminal priest, Father James...
By a Broken Rites Australia researcherThe Catholic diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in New South Wales has admitted that it paid an expensive team of lawyers to defend a paedophile priest in a child-abuse...
View ArticleThe church protected Father Paul Raymond Evans - but now his victims force...
By a Broken Rites researcherBroken Rites is doing further research about Father Paul Raymond Evans who molested vulnerable young teenagers while they were under his supervision at Boys' Town (a...
View ArticleA New South Wales priest is scheduled for court proceedings
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 31 July 2018A Catholic priest in northern New South Wales, John Patrick Casey, 68, is scheduled for a hearing in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court...
View ArticleThis priest abused young boys in NSW, police allege
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 5 August 2017For 34 years until 1995, Father David Joseph Perrett was a priest in the Armidale Catholic diocese, which covers a large region in northern...
View ArticleThe church knew about this priest's crimes but gave him further victims
By a Broken Rites researcher, article posted 8 August 2018Broken Rites is researching Father Kevin Wright, who spent many years in the Wagga diocese which covers a large region in southern New South...
View ArticleThis "celibate" priest fathered two children, his colleagues say
By a Broken Rites researcherThe Catholic Church advertises its priests as being "celibate", but priests can have private relationships (either "gay" or "straight") if this is hidden from the public....
View ArticleThis priest, convicted in 2014, is facing more charges in 2018 relating to...
By a Broken Rites researcher, article updated 20 July 2018On 24 July 2014, Catholic priest, Father Patrick Holmes (then aged 79), was jailed for sexually abusing two young girls in Western Australia...
View ArticleA church report in 2002 contains allegations about George Pell abusing an...
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...
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