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… Andrew’s story Larry was the ‘fourth best fighter’ in the Catholic children’s home he and his siblings were sent to in … and she said, “You’re going to get a flogging. He’s a Catholic priest. He doesn’t do that” … I got a terrific … he said. It turned him ‘away altogether from the Catholic Church’, and still gives him nightmares. ‘I wake up of a …

… mission on the mainland, which was run by an order of Catholic Brothers. One day Brother Cormac got Curtis to sit … he thought it would be a sin to go back and tell the Church about the abuse, and has not approached them for an … mission on the mainland, which was run by an order of Catholic Brothers. One day Brother Cormac got Curtis to sit …

… had done. ‘She didn’t believe me … ‘Cause she was a strict Catholic … Once your mother doesn’t believe you, where do … Brother. Melvin didn’t ever report White to police or the Catholic Church. ‘It’s too late.’ … In the mid-1950s, 14-year-old …

… things. And then he actually left me with, “Keep going to church and pray to God to help you”. He felt he couldn’t do … to disclose.’ Elisabeth maintained a strong belief in the Catholic Church and it hurt her when she was forbidden from … to disclose.’ Elisabeth maintained a strong belief in the Catholic Church and it hurt her when she was forbidden from …

… Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘We were a very committed Catholic family and that stayed for a long time.’ His dad … He got married in his early 20s and stayed active in the Church. He’s not sure what made him confide in his parish … Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘We were a very committed Catholic family and that stayed for a long time.’ His dad …

… of abuse at the hands of a priest on three occasions in a church sacristy in the 1980s, he decided that the experience … to government to fix other public institutions. The Catholic Church could also take heed as ‘that silence, that … to government to fix other public institutions. The Catholic Church could also take heed as ‘that silence, that …

… the early 1940s Bernadette was born into a large, staunchly Catholic family that lived in a small New South Wales town. Church and the church community were central in their lives, … the early 1940s Bernadette was born into a large, staunchly Catholic family that lived in a small New South Wales town. …

… youngest in a large family that was part of a charismatic Catholic movement in Melbourne, and Stirling did not … brothers had been interfered with during their time in the Catholic school system in Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s. … Stirling doesn’t see child sexual abuse as ‘just a Catholic Church issue. I look at it as individuals that come together …

… was something not quite right. I was raised by a fanatical Catholic family … If you didn’t have your rosary beads at … fostered by the family that raised him. Benedict attended a Catholic school run by the Marist Brothers in Victoria. When … at the same time …’ When Benedict approached the Catholic Church and tried to find out details of the Marist Brother …

… there with a lot of hope in our hearts’. They believed a Catholic institution was supposed to be safe and Joey should … ‘was so disgusted when I found out – I haven’t been to church since. I won’t go to church, I won’t enter that … there with a lot of hope in our hearts’. They believed a Catholic institution was supposed to be safe and Joey should …