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DK And The Marist Brothers (Or: Towards Hurting)
Image: Chief Commissioner Peter McClellan Abuses by the Marist Brothers order of the Catholic Church have continued to be the focus of the current hearings of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It has heard … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis Turton, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Marist Brothers, Michael Salmon, Peter McClellan, Ross Murrin, St.Augustine's College
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Week 2, Day 2 (Or: It’s Okay, He Said He’d Never Do It Again)
Image: Alexis Turton, Marist Brother (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The Marist Brothers, a Catholic Church teaching order, allowed a paedophile member to continue teaching, even at a prestigious Sydney boarding school, despite knowing of his past abusive behaviour dating back … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Br. Alexis Turton, Br. Michael Hill, Catholic Church child abuse, Fr. Brown, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Marist Brothers, paedophile, St. Augustine School, St. Joseph’s School, Towards Healing
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Towards Healing Hearings Resume (Or: Priests Don’t Gossip)
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today continued its hearings concerning the Catholic Church’s scheme for dealings with victims, the “Towards Healing” process. It is concentrating on four victims, in two dioceses (Brisbane in Queensland … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Brother Celestine, Catholic Church child sexual abuse, Finian Egan, Geoffrey Hilton, Geoffrey Jarrett, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Marist Brothers, Michael Hill, Pope Francis, Raymond Foster
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A Fit and Proper Organisation? (Or: Who’s Really Responsible?)
The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse will focus on institutional responses. This means, effectively, that there will be much consideration given to background checks, and monitoring, of people associated with organisations working with children. This is an obviously important … Continue reading
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A Review of the Marist Brothers (Or: I Teach Therefore I Abuse)
The Marist Brothers is a world-wide Catholic Church order, noted for its role in teaching at primary and secondary school levels. Many of its “teachers” entered the order as teenagers, and gained their first teaching appointment while still teenagers. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Assumption College Kilmore Victoria., Brian Robert Gordon, Brisbane diocese’s deputy directory of Catholic Education, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Colgan Taylor, David Austin Christian, fit and proper organisation, fit and proper organization, Francis Hesford, Geoffrey Veness, George Pell, Gerard Joseph McNamara, government funding, Gregory James Carter, Gregory Joseph Sutton, Hugh Michael McNamara, John Aloysius Littler, John Desmond Dyson, John Patrick Gleeson, John William Chute, Judge Helen Murrell, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malcolm Hall, Marist Brothers, Marist Brothers schools, Marist Brothers’ Newman College Perth, Marist College (Canberra), Michael Folli, Norbert Mathieson, Peter Richard Spratt, Roger Michael Bellemore, Ross Francis Murrin, St Augustine's College (Cairns, St Gregory’s College Campbelltown New South Wales, St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill Sydney, Terence Joseph Gilsenan, Terence Mulligan, Vincent’s boys’ home Westmead Sydney
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Onus on the Military (Or: Military Secrets)
Image: Manly Village Public School Cadets – 1913 The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has very wide terms of reference as to what institutions it will cover. Besides churches, organisations such as the military will … Continue reading
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Tagged (Australian New South Wales Government) Special Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to the Police Investigation of Certain Child Sexual Abuse Allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Ne, Archives Act 1983, Australian Defence Department, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, churches, Defence Abuse Response Taskforce, Freedom of Information laws, institutions, James Ruse agricultural high school, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Manly Village Public School Cadets, Marist Brother Norbert Mathieson, Marist Brothers, military, National Archives, national security, New South Wales Inquiry, NSW Inquiry, Pathway to Change, school cadets, terms of reference
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Teaching Priests (Or: The Little Children Suffer )
While there have not been that many state teachers caught, there have been a hell of a lot of clerical teachers, giving the lie to the church claims that they do not offend any more than the general public. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaide, Alan Edward Swingler, Albert Matthew Taylor, Assumption College (Kilmore, Blackfriars Priory School (Prospect, Brian Dennis Cairns, Brian Robert Gordon, Brisbane Boys' Grammar School, Brisbane), Broken Rites, Brother Greg Coffin, Catholic Education, Chanel College (Gladstone, Chevalier College (Bowral, David Austin Christian, De La Salle Brothers, De La Salle College (Orange, Downlands College (Queensland), Edward Mamo, Edwin Rapson, Forgotten Australians, Francis (Mick) Reis, Frank Terrence Keating, Geoffrey Sydney Veness, Gerard Gladwin, Gerard Joseph McNamara, Gregory Joseph Sutton, Hugh Michael McNamara, John Desmond Dyson, John William Chute, Kevin Francis Phillips, Kevin John Lynch, La Salle College (Revesby, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Marist Brothers, Marist Brothers (Pagewood, Marist Brothers College (Ashgrove, Marist Brothers College (Eastwood, Marist College (Canberra), Melbourne, Monivae College, Newman College (Perth), NSW), paedophiles, Patrician Brothers, Peter John Toomey, Peter Paul Van Ruth, Peter Richard Spratt, Phillip John Hardy, priests, Queensland), Raymond Sidney Foster, Redden College (Melbourne), Ronald William Hopkins, Ross Francis Murrin, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Salesian College, Salesians of Don Bosco, St Augustine's College (Cairns, St Bernadette's (St Mary's, St Brendan's College (Yeppoon), St Joseph's Christian Brothers' College (Geelong, St Joseph's College (Hunters Hill, St Mark's College (Port Pirie), St Paul's School (Bald Hills, St Stanislaus College (Bathurst, Sydney), Thomas William Grealy, Trinity College (Goulburn), Trinity Regional College (Brunswick, Victoria)
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