AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times

April 17, 2015

David Ellery
Reporter for The Canberra Times.

Canberra’s Marist Brothers community is to be disbanded by the middle of the year following the deaths of two members in the past 18 months and the appointment of a third to head a new community in Western Sydney.

Marist Brothers have lived and worked in the ACT since the late 1960s when Marist College Canberra was established.

A spokesman for the order said the decision to close the community would not affect the running of the college which now operates with lay teachers and a lay principal.

“The Marist Brothers stress this decision (to close the community and relocate the remaining brothers) is entirely unrelated to the sad events that were the subject of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse),” the spokesman said.

“This brings to an end nearly…