Christopher Saunders Kieran Tapsell Title: Broome Bishop bows out of national conference as police and Vatican investigations continue Author: Erin Parke Publisher: ABC News Date: 16MAY2020 The Catholic Church is maintaining its silence on the status of its ongoing investigation into the leadership and financial practices in its Broome diocese in West Australia’s Kimberley region.
Gerald Ridsdale Non-Parole 2025 Title: Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale sentenced to 10 years’ jail for sexual abuse of boys in 1970s Author: Iskhandar Razak Publisher: ABC News Date: 14MAY2020 Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale will spend at least another three years in jail after pleading guilty to 14 new offences. Key points: Ridsdale will not be
Doyle Searson Pell Untruthful Title: Monsignor denies George Pell kept in dark about alleged paedophile Peter Searson Author: James Hancock Publisher: ABC News Date: 27APR2016 A former director of Catholic Education Melbourne has firmly denied claims by Cardinal George Pell that management deceived him about the actions of accused paedophile priest Peter Searson. Key points:
Pope Francis Defrock Pell Title: Clergy abuse survivor draws support for petition to defrock Pell Author: Matt Neal Publisher: ABC News Date: 11MAY2020 A petition started by a clergy abuse survivor has received more than 30,000 signatures supporting his call for Cardinal George Pell to be defrocked. Key points: Clergy abuse survivor Paul Levey has
Pell Milligan Royal Commission Title: History will not be kind to George Pell, as royal commission reveals its secret findings Author: Louise Milligan Publisher: ABC News Date: 08 MAY2020 For more than 1,400 days, they waited. Little kids but now grown up, the childhoods they’d left behind stained by trauma. They waited to discover what
Porter Pell Royal Commission Title: Royal commission’s Pell findings in days Author: AAP Publisher: 9News Date: 05MAY2020 A royal commission’s findings about Cardinal George Pell’s knowledge of historical child sexual abuse complaints will be released within days. Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter says he has been advised that the two Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to
ABCNews Sarah Farnsworth Pell Title: Royal commission findings about Cardinal George Pell could be made public. Here’s what we know Author: Sarah Farnsworth Publisher: ABC News Date: 30APR2020 For years, questions have been asked about what Cardinal George Pell might have known about clerical abuse during his long career within the Catholic Church. Giving evidence
Eileen Piper Comensoli Apology Title: After 26 years, Eileen Piper has finally won an apology from the Catholic Church for her daughter’s abuse Author: Karen Percy Publisher: ABC News Date: 27APR2020 It’s taken 26 years, reams of legal documents and many tears, but Eileen Piper has done what she set out to do — cleared
George Pell RevelationABC SNAP Title: Two More Victims Allege Abuse at the Hands of Cardinal George Pell Author: Steven Spaner Publisher: SNAP Date: 02APR2020 Two more men have come forward to allege that they were abused by Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic official. This story is a reminder of the challenges that survivors face and is a