AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher
Article posted 19 May 2013
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 2002, when police finally learned of sexual crimes that Taylor had committed, more than 20 years earlier, against two very young girls.
Broken Rites Australia knows that these two girls were not Brother Colgan’s only victims, nor were they his first victims. They are merely two who happened to come to the attention of police, unexpectedly, after a long delay. How many other victims did Brother Colgan Taylor have?
Lancelot Kenneth Taylor was born in Sydney on 18 March 1922. He was taught by Marist Brothers while he was a pupil at Sacred Heart school in Mosman (Sydney). When he finished his schooling, the 1930s depression limited his career choices but he had the opportunity of becoming a Marist Brother. In 1940, aged 18, he began training as a Marist Brother. In accordance with Marist policy, he was given a religious alias, becoming Brother “Colgan” Taylor (“Colgan” is an old Irish-Catholic name).
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