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… Neil’s father decided it was best to put his kids into a Catholic orphanage while he got over his grief. He felt that … town not far from Neil’s home. It was run by an order of Catholic nuns with occasional assistance from Father … victims of crime compensation and $25,000 from the Catholic Church. At the time of his session with the Royal Commission …

… Millie’s husband Rob was sexually abused as a student at a Catholic boarding school in Melbourne in the 1970s. Rob … of the school at the time. He referred them to the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process. The later …

… arrived in Australia after World War II. Both were devout Catholics. In the 1950s they worked hard and managed to buy … school. When he was in Grade 2 at about eight years old the Catholic children in the class were told that they would all … previously thought that reporting the abuse to the Catholic Church would be a waste of time, but is now considering …

… Logan Reece's story Logan was born into a Catholic family in regional New South Wales. He was a high achiever in school and attended church regularly. When a close family member died, Logan was … devastated, and his mother believed that sending him to a Catholic high school would ‘fill the gap’. Logan entered the …

… asked her to help Father Kennedy in the presbytery. The church was just down the road from her Catholic primary school in regional Victoria, and helping … the presbytery. The church was just down the road from her Catholic primary school in regional Victoria, and helping …

… afterwards, Catherine and her brothers were sent away to Catholic orphanages. It was the mid-1950s and Catherine was six years old. Catherine’s orphanage was run by Catholic nuns. She told the Commissioner that she witnessed … In the late 2000s she participated in the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process. She received some …

… That was when I was 14 or 15.’ His parents, staunch Catholics, offered little support. His father, now dead, ‘would never question the Church’, Lewis said. And his mother, even now, doesn’t … understanding. ‘Certainly, if they’d understood that being Catholic didn’t make [the teachers] saints they would have …

… on me and of course, being a … growing up in a very strict Catholic family … very devout … that sense of godliness was … that did at the time was, it put a knife between me and the Catholic Church.’ Lyall grew up in regional Victoria in the 1940s and …

… believe such a thing could have happened. Leo’s large Catholic family had come together for a reunion, and he and … small town in regional Victoria there was an established Catholic community and high regard for the Brothers. Leo … not be an expression of genuine regret but a way for the Church to avoid further trouble, ‘trying to mitigate what …

… New South Wales town and started helping out in the Young Catholic Workers Association office. There she met the … he was especially welcomed by Victoria’s mother, a devout Catholic. ‘He would drive groups of us home from meetings’, … I like the feeling of going. I like to just go into a church and be quiet by myself. When the priest gets up …