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… Marie's story Marie attended a Catholic girls’ high school in Sydney and was sexually … coercive.’ In the 2000s, Marie chose to participate in the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing program. Her initial contact was …

… the classroom door. Eunice was his class teacher at his Catholic primary school in regional New South Wales. She spoke to his mother after church one Sunday, and said he needed extra help with his … him to. Raised in the 1960s, in a strict and devoutly Catholic family, Maurice always obeyed adults – especially …

… Magnus's story The victim of two paedophiles – a Catholic Brother and a priest – Magnus, now in his 50s, is … uncles and cousins. Siblings and cousins attended the local Catholic church, where his parents were married and he was …

… Jehovah’s Witnesses when I was about five. My parents were Catholics before that, and they came knocking and my mother … more can I say about that? She was disillusioned with the Catholics, I guess. 'My father was in hospital and needed … elders as her father was a prominent member of the Church, and all of Camila’s life to that time had been …

… his mother. He joined the Big Brother program run by the Catholic Church and was matched with Bill Bentley, a man in his 50s. … ‘incomprehensible and deliberate failure’ on behalf of the Catholic Church. As an adult Rhys gets panic attacks. He has …

… David Mark's story David became a Catholic priest in the early 1970s, suffered a mental … later he caught up with an old friend who happened to be a Catholic priest. While listing a few of the Church’s woes, the friend added, ‘And then there was the …

… Belle's story Belle loved the Catholic Church when she was growing up in Western Australia. She was … didn’t know anything about sex, or the body. She was from a Catholic school in the early 1960s, after all. ‘12-year-old …

… to many Victorian parishes throughout his decades as a Catholic priest. His grooming of children and families was … that McMahon’s offending behaviour had been known by Church authorities since a complaint in the early 1940s. … mid-1990s, Raphael started civil proceedings against the Catholic Church but was told that the Church couldn’t be …

… a long time ago, all of that, but it’s the way that the Church … dealt with me and dealt with me coming forward. To … born into a family who were ‘card-carrying members of the Catholic Church’. In the mid-60s he was sent to a Catholic primary school, where he struggled to adjust. ‘I …

… former Brother ZA. The settling of compensation claims by Catholic Church Insurance and the Marist Brothers regarding … former Brother ZA. The settling of compensation claims by Catholic Church Insurance and the Marist Brothers regarding …