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… my life as far as I’m concerned.’ Alec grew up in a devout Catholic family in the 1970s and 80s in a small New South … after the trial, was that he’d been taken to the local Catholic presbytery where he was sexually abused by both the … died … He [the man] introduced me to the abuse at the church. He took me there. That happened.’ A few years later, …

… Alec ended up at a South Australian children’s home run by Catholic nuns. ‘Some of them were good, some of them were … redemption’ and sent him to a boarding school run by Catholic Brothers. Alec said, ‘I went from the frying pan … tried several times to lodge a complaint with the Catholic Church but said that he always gets ‘fobbed off’. He said he …

… up in a household where most activities revolved around the Catholic Church. ‘The parish priest would come to our house and do … Maryann wanted to discuss a paper she was writing about the Catholic Church and rang Dawkins to arrange a meeting. She …

… a regional Western Australian town and attending the local Catholic school. ‘At the age of 11, I was sexually abused at … parents and they were shocked and disappointed that their church who they had entrusted with the care of their son had … contacted Towards Healing to register his abuse with the Catholic Church. ‘The woman who I spoke with … made me feel …

… Annie's story ‘I wipe my hands of the Catholic Church at the moment’, Annie told the Commissioner. She … up throughout the 1940s-1950s, she was one of a devout Catholic family. For her parents, as for others in the small …

… exercise going on with the Marist Brothers and the broader Catholic Church … it’s all just a face-saving exercise … It’s just … of this process.’ He wants to see ‘greater transparency’ in Catholic Church procedures and believes the Church needs to …

… and at that time, being the youngest in the family, and the Church held in such high regard, I was too scared to tell … to move their son to a state school. ‘That was huge for a Catholic family’, Christian said. Decades later, the uncle … of being sexual abused by priests and Brothers in the Catholic Church. ‘I’m thinking, “God, you’re brave”.’ Two …

… when I was at school.’ Garry was an only child born to Catholic parents in the early 1980s. He attended his local Catholic school in regional Queensland, which was next to the local church – in fact the church was so close to the playground …

… would never harm my daughter. I also feel betrayed by the Catholic Church’s systemic inadequacy to satisfactorily address their … Jess grew up in rural New South Wales, and attended a Catholic primary school in the late 1980s. Her mother was a …

… camp, as Walters also helped out on camps run by Shannon’s Catholic school, and was involved with the Catholic youth group he attended. Walters threatened Shannon … began training to be an altar boy at the local Catholic church. He witnessed an altar boy performing oral sex on one …