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	Broken Rites Australia — What's New Broken Rites February 7, 2010 http://brokenrites.alphalink.com.au/nletter/whatsnew.html he Broken Rites victim support group helps victims of church-related sexual abuse in Australia. Here is a list of the most recent articles (written by Broken Rites researchers) published on this website: * Marist Brother Malcolm Hall Today, fifty years after being sexually abused by Marist Brother Malcolm Hall in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a number of Australian men and women are still feeling hurt by his offences and by the cover-up (posted 6 February 2010). * Lyne Why did Father Daniel Lyne vanish from the Catholic priesthood? (Posted 4 February 2010.) * Spillane Catholic priest Father Brian Joseph Spillane is scheduled to undergo a court process (step by step) in Sydney during 2010, charged with sex-offences on boys at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW, and sex-offences on girls in Sydney (updated 10 January 2010). * Gaven This is some background about Brother John Gaven (formerly of St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW), who is scheduled to undergo a court process (step by step) in Sydney's Downing Centre courts during 2010, charged with sexual offences against children (updated 10 January 2010). * Irwin William Stanley Irwin was once a Brother (and later a priest) in the Catholic Vincentian order. A Sydney court was told in December 2009 that Brother Irwin allegedly sexually abused a boy when the pair were visiting St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW, after travelling from Victoria, in 1986. The court was told that the boy's parents complained but the incident was allegedly covered up and Irwin was later appointed as a teacher at St Stanislaus. In the early 1990s, Brother Irwin was ordained as a priest, becoming Father Irwin, but in recent years he has left the Vincentian order to teach in Catholic schools as a layman. The court procedure will resume in 2010 (updated 10 January 2010). * Dwyer A New South Wales magistrate has ordered a Catholic priest, Peter William Dwyer, to stand trial in the Sydney District Court during 2010 regarding alleged incidents at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst NSW, during the 1980s (updated 10 January 2010). * Fr Hugh Murray Court proceedings began in 2009 (and will continue in 2010) against a Catholic priest, Fr Hugh Edward Murray, 79, of Marsfield, Sydney. The charges concern offences allegedly committed against two boys in Sydney in the 1960s and one boy from St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW, in the 1970s (updated 10 January 2010). * Phillips Catholic priest Kevin Francis Phillips, 58, appeared in court in Sydney in 2009, charged with offences against boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst NSW. His case is scheduled for mention again in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court in 2010. Father Phillips' current address was given as a parish in Mackay in central Queensland (updated 10 January 2010). * Robson In Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court, police have charged Father Philip Robson (a member of the Vincentian order of Catholic priests) with child-sex offences allegedly committed while he was located at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW. Fr Robson's court process is scheduled to resume in the same court during 2010 (updated 10 January 2010). * Jennings James Patrick Jennings was once a Catholic priest in the Vincentian order. In 2009 he was charged with indecent assault on a male at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst NSW, during 1961. His court proceedings have been scheduled to continue in Sydney during 2010 (posted 10 January 2010). * Grealy This Catholic Brother, Augustine Grealy, covered the Virgin Mary's statue with a coat while he molested pupils (posted 9 January 2010). * Denham #1 BACKGROUND STORY: This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about Father John Sidney Denham, of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese in New South Wales, who is due to be sentenced in early 2010 for multiple sex-crimes against children (updated 9 January 2010). * Denham #2 COURT STORY: This Broken Rites article summarises the court proceedings of Father John Sidney Denham, of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese in New South Wales. The sentencing process will be completed in early 2010 (updated 9 January 2010). * Current court cases Broken Rites researchers have compiled this list of current court cases which Broken Rites is following. These cases, involving Catholic priests and brothers, are currently in (or coming up in) Australian courts (updated 9 January 2010). * Black Collar Crime Since Broken Rites Australia was formed in 1992, Broken Rites has seen 117 Australian Catholic priests and brothers sentenced in court cases in which Broken Rites has had an involvement. These 117 court cases are on the top half of the Black Collar Crime page. In addition, on the bottom half of the page, there are a number of out-of-court cases in which Broken Rites has had an involvement (updated 9 January 2010). * Willett A former Christian Brother, John Willett, was convicted in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on 30 November 2009 after he pleaded guilty to indecent assault of a teenage girl in the 1970s (posted 13 December 2009). * Houston On 17 June 1997, a magistrate ordered that Christian Brother William Stuart Houston, then aged 58, should stand trial in the Victorian County Court on charges relating to a twelve-year-old boy at St Augustine's orphanage, Geelong, in 1969-70. This trial has not yet been held. Meanwhile, in late 2009 the Geelong Police criminal investigations unit received sworn statements, about William Houston, made by two other former St Augustine's boys. These additional statements are scheduled to be submitted to a magistrate at the Geelong Magistrates Court early in 2010. The 2010 case is being prepared by Detective Senior Constable Daryl Crosthwaite of Geelong (posted 1 December 2009). * Sharkey In the New South Wales District Court at Wollongong on 16 November 2009, Catholic priest Kelvin Gerald Sharkey (aged 82) pleaded guilty to one incident of buggery and two incidents of indecent assault (that is, indecent touching) involving an altar boy in Wollongong, beginning in 1969 when the boy was aged aged ten. Sentence proceedings will begin on a later date. Sharkey, now retired from parish appointments, is still listed as a "supplementary priest" of the Wollongong Catholic Diocese (posted 17 November 2009). * Altar boy #1 AND Altar boy #2 The Catholic Church in Australia has accepted — and settled — a complaint from a former altar boy (Damian) and a separate complaint from another altar boy (Daniel). The boys, who did not know each other, encountered the same priest (separately) when they were aged 12. The lives of both boys deteriorated, ending in death when they were aged 28 (updated 5 November 2009). * ANGLICAN case An Australian court has heard about a sexually-abusive Anglican priest, Wilfred Edwin Dennis, who left the mainstream Anglican Church to join a breakaway group, called the "Anglican Catholic Church" (posted 19 October 2009). * Barnett Broken Rites has researched Father Charles Alfred Barnett, who ministered in South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales for twenty years until the mid-1990s. Now in custody in South Australia, he says he is pleading guilty to certain sexual offences and not guilty to some other, more serious charges (all the alleged victims were boys) (updated 15 October 2009). * Penn Jones In 1994 Broken Rites began researching the "Very Reverend" Monsignor Penn Jones. Ten years later the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese was forced to apologise to the monsignor's victims, and more complaints have surfaced in 2009 (the first version of this Broken Rites article was written in 1995; last updated 15 October 2009). * Carter Broken Rites has researched Marist Brother Gregory Carter — he molested a boy but was later promoted to become a headmaster (updated 15 October 2009). * ANGLICAN case Broken Rites has researched one of Australia’s most prominent Anglican priests — Father James Stirling Murray — who managed to survive complaints about him committing sex offences on vulnerable boys (posted 2 October 2009). * Brother Bertinus The Marist Brothers administration in Australia has apologised to two ex-pupils (Eoin and John) who encountered a senior Marist principal, Brother Bertinus, in Catholic boarding schools many years ago (posted 1 October 2009). * Toowoomba Has the Catholic Church really learned lessons about "child protection"? An Australian criminal case, currently before Toowoomba Magistrates Court in Queensland in 2009, raises questions about the Catholic Church's "child protection" procedures (updated 12 September 2009). * McNamara Broken Rites Australia is continuing its research about Marist Brother Gerard Joseph McNamara, who was convicted in 2005 after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting boys at one of the schools where he taught in the 1970s. Here is the Broken Rites court story from 2005 (updated 11 September 2009). * Brother Fintan Broken Rites Australia has researched Brother Fintan Dwyer, who had a reputation in De La Salle schools for indecently and invasively touching boys' genitals. One of his victims was a pupil who later became a priest. Fintan Dwyer is not to be confused with another Brother named Finian (updated 11 September 2009). * Fuller This Broken Rites article is about Sydney Catholic priest Robert Fuller, who is currently scheduled for court proceedings, after allegedly seeking a 13-year-old girl, through the internet, for sexual purposes. The alleged incidents occurred recently, in July-August 2009 (updated 5 November 2009). * Whelan Catholic priest Father James Barry Whelan exploited a vulnerable woman, the woman's barrister alleged in an Australian court (posted 11 August 2009). * Pavlou Broken Rites has researched the story of Father Paul Pavlou (a priest of the Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese) who has admitted committing child-sex crimes (updated 10 August 2009). * Brennan The New South Wales District Court has rejected an appeal by Father Thomas Brennan (of the Maitland-Newcastle diocese), who had been convicted of making a false written statement. In a 1998 statement, Brennan told police that he "could not remember" receiving a series of child sex-abuse complaints (about another priest) while Brennan was the headmaster of a Catholic boys' secondary school in the 1970s. The staff at the school included Father John Sidney Denham, who is now in jail awaiting sentence for child-sex offences (updated 4 August 2009). * Pidoto This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available anywhere about Father Terrence Melville Pidoto, who targeted boys for 25 years while church leaders looked the other way. On 27 July 2009, the Victorian Court of Appeal refused to grant leave for Pidoto to appeal against his conviction (updated 4 August 2009). * Wise A South Australian court has ruled that an elderly former Christian Brother, Francis Lambert Wise, was medically unfit to stand trial on charges of child sexual abuse. However, a judge held hearings in early 2009 to receive the complaints, thereby giving the victims an opportunity to have their evidence aired in court (updated 4 August 2009). * Houston A visiting Catholic priest, Father John Charles Houston, 54, pleaded guilty in court on 28 July 2009 to filming naked boys, without their permission, while they showered. The court ordered him not to loiter near public pools or beaches (updated 1 August 2009). * Brisbane priest A 64-year-old Catholic priest, from the Brisbane Catholic Archdiocese, appeared in court on 28 July 2009, charged with the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl. The offences were allegedly committed in the Ipswich district (within the Brisbane archdiocese) between 1977 and 1981 (updated 28 July 2009). * St Ives, N.S.W. A Catholic religious Brother appeared in a Sydney's Hornsby Local Court on 21 July 2009, charged with indecent assaults, allegedly committed against a girl in Sydney's St Ives area between 1975 and 1980, beginning when the girl was aged 12. The Brother was ordered to re-appear in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court in September 2009. The charged man, now aged 77, has been living in recent years with his religious colleagues at Templestowe in suburban Melbourne (posted 22 July 2009). * Fr Rex Brown Broken Rites has researched Father Paul Rex Brown (once a senior priest in the Lismore Catholic diocese, New South Wales) who was convicted in Queensland for possessing child pornography (posted 20 July 2009). * O'Hearn On Father David O'Hearn, 48, of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese in New South Wales, who is currently before the courts on multiple child-sex charges, was charged in court on 15 July 2009 with additional sexual offences against a fourth boy. The matters are scheduled for court again soon (updated 20 July 2009). * Elmer This is a Broken Rites case-study of Christian Brother Rex Ignatius Elmer, who was jailed for indecently assaulting boys at St Vincent's Boys' Home in South Melbourne (posted 20 July 2009). * Coswello Christian Brother John Francis Coswello was jailed on 22 June 2009 after a jury found him guilty of committing sexual offences against a 12-year-old boy in a Melbourne orphanage (updated 26 June 2009). * Searson Broken Rites is researching the case of Father Peter Searson who has been the subject of various complaints in the Melbourne Catholic archdiocese (updated 26 June 2009). * Gannon This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about the crimes of prominent Melbourne Catholic priest Father Desmond Gannon, who was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court on 10 June 2009 to another term in jail, after pleading guilty to more offences (updated 26 June 2009). * Murrin This Broken Rites article is the most comprehensive account available about Marist Brother Ross Murrin, who is awaiting a second sentence in mid-2009 -- for crimes committed against boys in Sydney schools. He is already in jail, following a previous conviction. Meanwhile, Queensland police are investigating Murrin regarding his time in another school, in Cairns (updated 12 June 2009). * St Gerard Majella Brothers Broken Rites helped to end a cover-up. The unmasking of the St Gerard Majella religious order (updated 9 June 2009). * Conway New information about Ronald Conway — the celibate psychologist who helped the Catholic Church with its public image of "celibacy" (updated 9 June 2009). * Gubbels This is the story of Catholic priest Father Jack Gubbels who was transferred from Melbourne to Queensland, where he died while police were seeking to interview him (posted 9 June 2009). * Farrell At last, the Marist Brothers head office accepts complaints about Marist Brother Stephen Farrell, child abuser, who taught for many years in New South Wales and Queensland (posted 27 April 2009). * Haines This is the full story of Australian Catholic priest John Haines, child-abuser. He entered the priesthood in Papua New Guinea and then transferred to Australia, where he was jailed on child-sex and child-porn charges after he was caught with child porn recorded on his mobile phone (updated 27 April 2009). * Evans This is the most comprehensive article available anywhere about Father Paul Raymond Evans. The church protected Evans but in April 2009 his victims forced the church to apologise (updated and expanded 20 Apri1 2009, with the full text of the church's apology). * Tector In 1994, Darren John Tector was jailed for sexual offences against boys while he was a teacher at a Catholic primary school (Our Lady of Lourdes) at Seven Hills, near Parramatta, west of Sydney. He was jailed again in 2007 (aged 41) for using the internet and a telephone to procure a child (a 12-year-old boy) for sexual activity (posted 13 March 2009). * Fox Father Julian Fox, an Australian-born priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco religious order, now travels the world, conducting seminars for Salesian schools — but not in Australia (posted 1 March 2009). * Reis Two female victims eventually contacted the police after the Catholic Church allowed an abusive priest to continue working with young people, a court has been told. Father Michael Francis Reis, 66 (a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart religious order), was jailed in Brisbane for offences against two young girls in the 1980s and 1990s (updated 1 March 2009). * Murray After Father Magnus William Murray ("Max" Murray) committed child-sex offences in New Zealand, he was transferred to Australia, where he was allowed to minister in a Sydney parish. He later returned to New Zealand, where he was jailed in 2003 after pleading guilty to sexual offences against four of his New Zealand victims (posted 1 March 2009). * Best This is the background of Christian Brother Robert Charles Best, who taught in Catholic schools in Ballarat East, Melbourne and Geelong in the 1970s and 1980s. He is currently listed to face court proceedings in Victoria regarding child-sex offences (updated 22 February 2009). * Chalk Broken Rites Australia is researching Father Peter Chalk, who ministered in Melbourne in the 1970s with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart religious order, conducting a youth group. By the early 1990s, the MSC order transferred him to Japan and it now says that he has left the order (posted 12 February 2009). * Boyd Father Glenn Boyd left the ministry of the Wagga Wagga Catholic Diocese (in southern New South Wales) following queries about his youth work (posted 12 February 2009). * Towards Healing The Catholic Church is privately reviewing its "Towards Healing" process for church sex-abuse victims in Australia but the church has not sent out any circular, announcing this review, to victims who have been through the "Towards Healing" process. Any submissions had to be made before 15 January 2009 to Professor Patrick Parkinson, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006 (this article was updated on 4 January 2009). * Creen Father Neville Joseph Creen repeatedly molested young girls while he was ministering in a parish in north-west Queensland, according to Creen's guilty plea in court (updated 3 January 2009). * Sutton Marist Brother Gregory Sutton fled from Australia to the United States but was eventually extradited back to Australia, where he was jailed (posted 3 December 2008). * Cusack The Catholic Church has admitted that a "highly respected" priest, Father Patrick Cusack, sexually molested primary school girls in the Canberra-Goulburn archdiocese during many years (posted 15 November 2008). * Brother Down Christian Brother Graeme James Down (alias Brother "David" Down) molested school boys in Western Australia in the 1980s and was jailed in 2007. Then more victims came forward, resulting in more jail in 2008 (posted 11 November 2008). * Hourigan A Victorian Catholic priest, Father Daniel Hourgian, died three days after police charged him with sexual offences against a boy (posted 22 September 2008). * Eames A Melbourne priest, Father Anthony Eames, was finally convicted after committing offences against young girls for many years (posted 22 September 2008). * Mackie Police in Newcastle, New South Wales, began investigating allegations that a Catholic priest (Fr Gerard Mackie) showed an explicit image to seven-year-old children at a government school during a "religious education" lesson (posted 15 September 2008). * Coffey West Victorian Catholic priest Father Bryan Desmond Coffey was indecently touching young children soon after taking his vows of celibacy, a court has been told (updated 6 August 2008). * Moloney On 1 August 2008, a religious brother (Rodger William Moloney), who has worked in Australia and New Zealand, was jailed for sexually abusing intellectually-handicapped boys (updated 3 August 2008). * Howard Former pupils of Christian Brother Maurice Howard have not forgotten his activities at Catholic boys' schools in Victoria (posted 3 August 2008). * O'Donnell This is the most comprehensive article available about Father Kevin O'Donnell, of Melbourne, who was jailed after he admitted sexually abusing many children throughout his 50-year career, while his superiors and colleagues looked the other way (updated 27 July 2008). * Kostka A Catholic boys' college in Canberra allowed Marist Brother Kostka Chute to continue working with boys even after the school learned that he was molesting students, a court has been told (updated 27 June 2008, after Kostka was jailed). * McKeirnan The Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane harboured a sex-abuse priest, Father Ronald McKeirnan, for 30 years after it first learned that he was committing criminal offences against children. And it put him in charge of sex eduction for all Brisbane Catholic schools (updated 29 June 2008). * McAlinden Broken Rites helped to expose a child-abuser, Fr Denis McAlinden, who was shunted from New South Wales to Western Australia and also (we now find) to New Zealand (updated 22 June 2008, with a reference to New Zealand). * Donovan In May 2008 the Catholic Church's Professional Standards Office in New South Wales "accepted the veracity" of two complaints about Father Francis Donovan, a priest of the Redemptorist Fathers religious order. Two women, acting separately, had complained that Fr Frank Donovan molested them when they were young girls in the late 1970s in Maitland (posted 7 June 2008). * Marist Brothers Catholic Church lawyers claim that religious orders do not owe a duty of care to protect pupils from sexually-abusive religious Brothers, because (unlike lay teachers who are employed on salaries) the Brothers are not, technically, "employees" (posted 5 June 2008). * D'Cruz A Catholic priest, Father Adelrick D'Cruz, 78, pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court at Shepparton on 22 May 2008 to indecently assaulting a schoolgirl who came to his parish house for help (updated 1 June 2008). * Toomey A Christian Brother, Peter John Toomey, molested students in public in their classroom (posted 27 April 2008) * Goldsmith Former trainee priest Paul Ronald Goldsmith jailed — he held "prayer meetings" for his victims (updated 19 April 2008). * Dyson The Marist Brothers recycled sex-offender Brother John Desmond Dyson to a new position of trust (updated 19 April 2008) * McLachlan The Catholic Church had a child-abuser, Father Paul McLachlan, as its spokesman in Queensland (posted 12 April 2008). * Glennon This is the full story of Father Michael Charles Glennon, one of Australia’s most notorious child-abusers (posted 8 April 2008). * Van Klooster This priest abused young people in two Australian states — and he had pornography on his computer, filed under 'Parish Business' (updated 4 April 2008, with a footnote containing new information). * Connolly A Tasmanian priest, Father Paul Anthony Connolly, who was in charge of preparing future priests, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a child (updated 4 April 2008). * Brother Norbert The case of Marist Brother Norbert Mathieson demonstrates how church sex-abuse can continue affecting the victims and their families for many decades after the abuse (updated 4 April 2008). * Ibar Keating The De La Salle religious order knew that "Brother Ibar" (Frank Terence Keating) was abusing boys but it allowed him to continue teaching (updated 22 March 2008). * De La Salle The De La Salle religious order has apologised to an ex-pupil who complained about Brother Wilfred De Cruz (updated 15 March 2008). * Vincent Kiss This is the full story of Father Vincent Kiss, who admitted that he committed sexual crimes on boys while he was working as the Director of Youth for his diocese. (updated 15 March 2008). * Bellemore Victms of Father Roger Michael Bellemore succeed in publicly revealing this priest's crimes, despite an attempt by church lawyers to stop them. This case demonstrates how church victims can triumph over a powerful institution through determination and persistence (updated 1 March 2008). * Christian Brothers This article, written for the Broken Rites website by a victim of the Christian Brothers, gives a victim's view of Catholic Church sex-abuse in Australia. (posted 9 February 2008) * Daly The Sydney Catholic hierarchy allowed a troublesome priest to roam free — and one victim later committed suicide (posted 9 February 2008) * Murray Monsignor James Murray pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a vulnerable woman but the church re-instated him (posted 9 February 2008) * Ferguson Victims of this priest were intimidated into silence but now they obtain justice after 36 years. Father Gregory Laurence Ferguson, of the Marist Fathers, who was jailed on 15 May 2007 for offences against two boys aged 13 at a Tasmanian boarding school, was given an additional jail sentence on 13 December 2007 for offences against a third boy (updated 14th December 2007) * Hughes Hospital chaplains can be a health hazard, a woman patient says (29th September 2007) * Cotter Broken Rites exposes a cover-up: How Monsignor Cotter concealed the crimes of Father Vincent G. Ryan in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese (29th September 2007) * Vincent G. Ryan The church allowed a sexually-abusive priest to have access to new victims in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese (posted 10th September 2007) * Bongiorno Father Anthony Bongiorno talked about an 'old Spanish custom' — priests sexually abusing boys (updated 29th September 2007) * Howarth A young female victim defeats the church's lawyers, with help from Broken Rites (updated 18th August 2007) * Deal This priest (an Archbishop's secretary) pleaded guilty (last updated 18th August 2007) * Blackfriars It is never too late to tell the police, these victims say (last updated 2nd August 2007) * Baker Church leaders harboured an abusive priest and he continued to offend (last updated 2nd August 2007) * David Daniel The church ordained a child-abuser — and knowingly retained him in the ministry (last updated 2nd August 2007) * St Catherines Priest was removed from working in a girls' orphanage after complaints about abuse (last updated 6th July 2007) * Fitzmaurice The church apologises for what this priest did at a girls' school (last updated 6th July 2007) * O'Callaghan Complaints about a priest who was involved in a church youth movement (last updated 6th July 2007) * Day Church covered up a priest's crimes but now it admits that Broken Rites is right (last updated 24th May 2007) * Stockdale This 'traditionalist' priest was found dead in a sex cubicle in a men-only club (last updated 24th May 2007) * Christian Brothers Sex abuse at two Christian Brothers orphanages in Victoria -- St Augustine's and St Vincent's (last updated 24th May 2007) * Wilson After 30 years, the church says 'sorry' for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old schoolboy (last updated 24th May 2007) * Coffey The Marist Brothers appointed a child abuser as a school principal (last updated 24th May 2007) * Klep The church protected Father Frank Klep, despite his criminal conviction (last updated 24th March 2007) * Carroll Two female victims force the Catholic Church to apologise -- with help from Broken Rites (last updated 25th January 2007) * Mulvale / Shaw A convicted priest changes his surname: How Father Mulvale became Mr Shaw (last updated 12th January 2007) * Ridsdale Broken Rites helped the victims of Father Gerald Ridsdale. Here is the full story (last updated 12th January 2007).
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