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… Merrick’s homeroom teacher also abused him, as did a Catholic priest who often visited the area. He recalled … was ‘hurting my bum’, and thought she went to her Uniting Church pastor for advice. Merrick believed the pastor then ‘reported this to the Catholic Church and the response was for [the priest] to be …

… very traditional in their views and, as a devoted Roman Catholic, Gianni decided at the age of 15 that he wanted to … and this constant bullying transformed the idealistic young Catholic boy into an angry and vengeful young man. ‘I was so … realise that there’s a lot of criminality in the Catholic Church. I left Catholicism, I left the Catholic Church.’ …

… on their heads.’ After World War II, marriages between Catholics and Protestants were still discouraged. Sherman … harassed by ‘the nuns and priests up the road’ because his Catholic mother was not raising her children in the faith. … not in great detail. Recently he approached the Catholic Church and is now engaged in the Towards Healing process. A …

… the mid-1960s, Kenn was in his early teens and attending a Catholic school in Sydney’s northern suburbs. There he met … was obviously excited … We arranged that I would go to the church … my local church, I think it was at the end of the … the mid-1960s, Kenn was in his early teens and attending a Catholic school in Sydney’s northern suburbs. There he met …

… at one of those outings or whether it could’ve been in the church sacristy. You used to have to go and get changed in … broken my mother’s heart, I think. She was a strict Catholic and the priest was, you know, up on a pedestal to … broken my mother’s heart, I think. She was a strict Catholic and the priest was, you know, up on a pedestal to …

… Father Neil Upston. Upston was a priest at the local Catholic church Jac’s family went to, in a suburb of Melbourne. It … his mid-30s, Jac decided to pursue a civil case against the Catholic Church. He sought damages for the Church’s …

… by their family's strict observance of their deeply-held Catholic faith. Soon after they arrived in the parish their … the same story' who need support and they would like 'the Church to take some formal recognition that one of their … lies and stories. Dad was a police officer and very loyal Catholic so was fertile ground for this kind of lie. He …

… Hugo William's story Decades after he was abused by a Catholic priest, Hugo made a civil claim against him. But … 1960s and 1970s. His mother, a widow, raised their large Catholic family and worked for the Catholic Church. Father Frank Moroney befriended the family and …

… felt he had no one to turn to. His family was devoutly Catholic. His mother, ‘would never hear a word against the Church’. His father drank heavily and was physically and … permission to stay. Leon reluctantly returned to the Catholic school, where he told Father Fontana he would not …

… Luke Francis's story Luke was raised a staunch Catholic. Some of his extended family were in the clergy. … years at a state school in Melbourne but, when he went to a Catholic boys’ school in the 1960s, he was shocked by the … it. As for the other, forget it. Think of the name of the Church and the family name”. That was it. So you wonder why …