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… in Western Australia, including within Andrew’s devout Catholic family. ‘When Flanagan opened his mouth, everyone … Flanagan then started stalking Andrew, turning up at his Catholic high school, following the 12-year-old home from … sentence for murder. It’s people like him that the Catholic Church should go and find and get to tell their stories. …

… and being suspended from school, he was sent at age 12 to a Catholic boys’ home where he stayed for two years. A few … who, while taking a medical history, asked about the Catholic home. This was when Tommy first disclosed the … Prior to the class action, Jenny approached the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing program, and staff there offered a …

… A neighbour saw what happened and took Mary to the local Catholic parish. A Brother ‘told me, when I come back on my … went back to court, and they told her she was going to a Catholic orphanage. She remembers sleeping there on a used … she was in her 50s Mary reported the abuse to the Catholic Church. She was offered counselling but nothing more. ‘They …

… that he did to me.’ Vivian’s mother was a strict Irish Catholic, and the family regularly attended church in suburban Perth. She went to the adjacent school too: ‘Catholic school, Catholic friends. We didn’t know anything …

… story Arnett was born in the late 1960s into a devout Catholic family in rural Western Australia. At 14 years old, Arnett was given the opportunity to attend a Catholic boarding college run by the Christian Brothers. ‘I … belief in the goodness and sanctity of the Roman Catholic Church had been extremely affected by my experiences. My …

… Dion Peter's story Dion was sent to the same Catholic college his dad and his brothers had attended in … told his parents about the abuse, because of their strong Catholic faith and his father’s loyalty to the school. He … that’s going on.’ Although Dion was aware of the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing scheme, he did not trust the Church …

… That was the way Dom explained the culture of abuse at his Catholic boys’ school in the late 1960s. ‘I do have a bit of … suffered as a teenager at the school as barely surprising. ‘Catholicism has basically ruled the European world for … He worked for years in a government department. He joined a church. He kept his life together for many years, he told …

… a staff member. In the mid 1980s, she was enrolled in a Catholic primary school in Melbourne. She’d had trouble … contact with Father Murphy, the parish priest. There was a church and presbytery on the school grounds and she was used … she was considering taking legal action against the Catholic Church. … When she was six, Angel’s parents …

… fit into that culture. There were two reasons: one I wasn’t Catholic; and two, I didn’t really know why I was there.’ … commented on him not going to communion. ‘I said, “I’m not Catholic, Brother. I didn’t want to do the wrong thing”. He … he said something, that pretty much the work the Catholic Church does is far and above what happened to us …

… is the authority that a priest holds when you’re raised Catholic in generations of strong Catholics, and also the fear they inspire. The authority, … the conversation and had no further contact with Catholic Church staff. In the mid-2010s, Bridget reported the abuse …