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… Ann was 10 years old, she and her sister would wait on the church steps for their mother to pick them up from the Catholic school next door. Often, a friendly Jesuit priest … the church steps for their mother to pick them up from the Catholic school next door. Often, a friendly Jesuit priest …

… her father. She sat down and cried in front of an Anglican church, not far away from her family home. A priest found … school chaplain and reported the abuse to the Anglican and Catholic churches. She was disappointed that both churches … school chaplain and reported the abuse to the Anglican and Catholic churches. She was disappointed that both churches …

… Geoffrey Alan's story Geoffrey’s biological father wasn’t Catholic, and the two had never met. ‘I was raised by bigots … friar who helped run the youth group at the local parish church in an outer suburb of Sydney in the 1980s. ‘I … felt … else in society’. … Geoffrey’s biological father wasn’t Catholic, and the two had never met. ‘I was raised by bigots …

… damaged people he had seen’. Mel was sexually abused by Catholic priest, Father Hardy, who regularly visited her … unable to pursue the matter. Finally Mel approached the Catholic Church through its Towards Healing process. This turned out …

… to a small town in South Australia where Britta attended a Catholic school. The school stood beside a little church where a priest named Father Desmond lived. From age … of me … That’s when I realised I needed help.’ She rang the Catholic Church and asked what she could do. The man on the …

… Hale's story ‘I very rarely darken the door of a church these days ... I went through such a period of hate … had to get full-time work, so he became a boarder at a Catholic school in Tasmania in the mid-1960s. ‘I hated it, … things. As I got older in life I realised such a devout Catholic she was, she wasn’t going to have anything said …

… in Western Australia in the 1970s. His parents were devout Catholics who dragged him along to Mass every week. ‘It was … in those days. You couldn’t understand them. You went to church for an hour, you came home. You wouldn’t know the … saw Cardinal Pell commenting on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The Cardinal made a dismissive comment that …

… to live in Brisbane, he became very involved with the local Catholic church, and spent a lot of time with the priests. One of … afterwards Yared was contacted by Towards Healing , the Catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse. He’d been …

… in the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s and, like many Catholic boys, became an altar boy for the local priest, … abused Wayne from the age of nine. ‘Mum was a very strict Catholic, which made it hard for me to tell anyone what was … to keep proving that something had happened, and that the Church simply didn’t believe him. ‘Every time I had to see …

… run by the Sisters of Mercy. The youngest child in a large Catholic family in Queensland, his father was an alcoholic … Father Murphy, was committing a crime by raping him after church services. ‘He used to invite me over to his … priests doing some wonderful work. So I don't blame the Catholic Church. ‘I guess I was the lucky one because I made …