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  1. A victim of this Christian Brother receives an apology, at last

    ... taught at many schools including: St Patrick's College in Ballarat; St Kevin's College in Toorak; Christian Brothers St Kilda; and St ... is believed to have been a pupil at St Patrick's College, Ballarat , in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was recruited as a member of ...

    admin - 11/07/2018 - 10:49

  2. Father Gerald Ridsdale's life of crime and the church's cover-up. Background article

    ... Gerald Ridsdale (born 1934) had his childhood in Ballarat, a "very Catholic" city, where the bishop for western Victoria is ... his studies as a trainee priest, sponsored by the diocese of Ballarat (which covers the whole of western Victoria). Therefore he was ...

    admin - 04/03/2023 - 23:40

  3. The church covered up for Father Paul David Ryan for many years but eventually he was jailed

    ... mentions of Father Paul David Ryan in the Diocese of Ballarat . This diocese covers the western half of the state of Victoria. ... hierarchy. For example, Pickering knew the new Bishop of Ballarat, Bishop Ronald Mulkearns . Pickering and Mulkearns had both studied ...

    admin - 08/04/2022 - 06:24

  4. A priest leaves jail, then back in court again (and again) on more child-abuse charges

    ... In all three court cases, the charges were laid in the Ballarat Magistrates Court by detectives from the Sano Taskforce in the ... in Melbourne. Father Leslie John Sheahan belongs to the Ballarat diocese, which covers the whole of western Victoria, extending to ...

    admin - 11/08/2018 - 05:42

  5. The Christian Brothers ignored the crimes of Brother Robert Best, thus helping him to commit more crimes against more children

    ... taught at St Alipius parish primary school for boys in Ballarat East , where he also acted as the headmaster. (The name of the school ... at St Patrick's College (a secondary boarding school in Ballarat), where he also supervised a dormitory. Around these years, the St ...

    admin - 09/24/2019 - 04:52

  6. The church protected an abusive priest, Fr Syd Morey, in western Victoria

    ... James O'Collins accepted him as a trainee priest for the Ballarat diocese. The Ballarat diocese covers the western half of the state of Victoria, from the ...

    admin - 10/25/2018 - 10:49

  7. Fr Robert Claffey (already in jail) gets additional time behind bars

    ... as a priest by 1969. All his priestly work has been in the Ballarat diocese which covers the western half of the state of Victoria (it is called the Ballarat Diocese because the bishop is located in the city of Ballarat). ...

    admin - 05/09/2020 - 12:12

  8. The church hid the crimes of Christian Brother Edward Dowlan (now known as "Mister Ted Bales"): Background article

    ... school — a boarding school (St Patrick's College, Ballarat) in 1973, enabling Dowlan to commit more crimes on more boys, ... by Broken Rites):- St Alipius primary school ( Ballarat East ) in 1971 (where he became a full-time offender); St Thomas ...

    admin - 02/25/2022 - 23:04

  9. This criminal priest, Monsignor John Day, was helped by the church's cover-up

    ... Ryan. Monsignor John Day was a senior priest of the vast Ballarat Diocese, which covered 50 parishes in western Victoria, extending from ... to the city of Warrnambool (on the coast in the south). Ballarat is merely the town where the bishop lives. The major part of Monsignor ...

    admin - 11/06/2019 - 00:08

  10. This priest was committing indecent acts against children from Day One, a court is told

    ... background Bryan Coffey was born in the city of Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria on 28 October 1934. He was ordained in 1960 as a priest of the vast Ballarat Diocese, which covers all of western Victoria from Mildura on the ...

    admin - 01/09/2022 - 10:38

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