Newcastle Herald Editorial Revelation
Title: Newcastle Herald editorial, March 16, 2020: It’s time to challenge the Catholic Church over whether it’s really changed
Author: Editor
Publisher: Newcastle Herald
Date: 16MAR2020
HUNTER paedophile priest Vince Ryan is good at playing the victim, despite truly horrific crimes against children that include forcing boys as young as nine to attempt anal intercourse in a church with other boys, for his sick pleasure.
Men died too young after they were raped and sexually assaulted by Ryan. He was a protected species who could and should have been stopped from the early 1970s, but wasn’t because of the senior clerics above who covered up his crimes.
Hunter Catholics have been warned that the ABC series Revelation, presented by Sarah Ferguson from Tuesday and featuring an interview with Ryan, will be confronting. That’s if they watch it, and they should.
This is your church, is the message from Hunter survivor Scott Hallett, who was nine when Ryan gave him alcohol with other young altar boys, committed oral sex against them in a group, and directed them to attempt anal intercourse with each other.
Ryan is still a priest. He has not been defrocked despite spending more than 14 years in jail after his first convictions in 1996 and 1997, and again in 2016, and again in 2019.