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Broken Rites

The 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:

This “spiritual director” was abusing children: Brother Colgan Taylor had an exalted role as a “spiritual director” for the Catholic order of Marist Brothers in Australia while he was committing sexual crimes against young children. The reverend brother’s Catholic status gave him access to children and it protected him from exposure until police finally learned of some (but not all) of his crimes (posted 19 May 2013).

Church leaders and the Father McAlinden cover-up: Broken Rites has expanded its article about how Catholic Church authorities protected the paedophile priest Father Denis McAlinden for 40 years while he repeatedly committed sexual crimes against young girls in parishes around Australia. This Broken Rites research…