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… Home was no good either. Delia’s parents were both devoted Catholics. On those few occasions when Delia had mentioned … nuns? They were horrible too”.’ She reported Moretti to the Catholic Church and, after several years of subsequent …

… Vern a huge amount of money, and when he approached the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process recently, they asked him if … abused at the boys’ home, Vern had little time for the Catholic Church. ‘I had hate for so many years and I …

… born in Melbourne in the mid-1950s and attended the local Catholic primary school before moving to a Christian … Brothers, which Ray did. The Brothers then put him onto the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process for victims of child sexual …

… realised that Taylor was also abusing other boys at his Catholic primary school. ‘You could see all the boys that he … why they didn’t do anything. I’m dumbfounded.’ The Catholic Church – which Rodd described as ‘a bunch of …

… Romy's story Romy went to a Catholic primary school in Papua New Guinea (PNG) after her … was that nobody could protect me. And because I was in a church environment, I remember saying to myself that I’ve … found out as I went through all this healing process.’ The Catholic Church offered Romy counselling too, but she …

… story Father Brian Aloysius Dalgety groomed Lennon’s devout Catholic family who lived in a rural area of Victoria during … up’. His parents, Vince, a former altar boy from a strict Catholic heritage and Aleah, who converted to Catholicism … and is considering further legal action. Dalgety, whom the Church falsely and repeatedly denied had ever been mentioned …

… good to deal with”,’ Maree said. ‘That police officer was a Catholic, now that I look back. The bishop’s not nice to … The bishop told them ‘your mother has already sued the Church’, a statement they found confusing. It transpired … a lawyer who disclosed that he acted on occasions for the Catholic Church. When they tried to get advice from other …

… with the criminal justice system and the legal arm of the Catholic Church, Alanna walked away with this message and this … they would receive?’ Alanna was born into a strict Catholic family in regional Queensland in the late 1970s. …

… encountered anyone like Marsden. He’d enjoyed his time at a Catholic junior school – ‘I loved it there, and I loved the … nuns’– and had no difficulties as an altar boy at his local church: ‘Oh, no. They were as good as anything.’ So when his … believe him, he decided to take his story higher up the Catholic hierarchy, to the archbishop. At the time, aged …

… Dexter Sean's story Dexter knew every Catholic parish priest that came through town. He knew whose … homes. Dexter only ever saw Marshall at school or at the church for mass. Dexter was 13 when the church held a Bible … him down and bashed him. Soon after, Dexter left the Catholic Church altogether. Throughout his teens and …