AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (updated 6 May 2015)
This Broken Rites article exposes the activities of Christian Brother Maurice Howard during his long teaching career in Victoria and Tasmania. In 2015, the Christian Brothers have been forced to give a written apology to at least one of Brother Howard’s many victims.
Brother Maurie Howard taught at many schools including: St Patrick’s College in Ballarat; St Kevin’s College in Toorak; Christian Brothers St Kilda; and St Virgil’s College in Hobart.
Maurice Andrew Howard was born in 1914. He is believed to have been a pupil at St Patrick’s College, Ballarat, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was recruited as a member of the Christian Brothers and he began teaching at schools in their Victoria-Tasmania province.
In the late 1940s, he was back at St Patrick’s College as a teacher — “Brother Howard”. He was one of the school’s main coaches for cricket and football.
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