As children they went to boarding school.
As adults they're still dealing with the trauma.
As adults they're still dealing with the trauma.
Christine Jack has horrible memories from her time at boarding school.When she was seven, she was sent away from home to a Catholic establishment in New South Wales.
"I was a little child and it was a shock to go into a very strict regime ... it was virtually an enclosed convent," she tells ABC RN's Sunday Extra.
"I used to go to the toilet and cry for my mother and father."
She made friends, but still felt isolated, and had to learn to cope on her own. The attachment bonds with her parents started to tear.
It didn't get easier as she got older.
Now an educational historian and researcher at Charles Sturt University, she's published the first book on boarding school trauma in Australia, incorporating her own personal experiences and a growing body of research from the UK.
Portrait of a mature-aged woman wearing a colourful necklace and black top.
Christine says many adults don't realise they're affected by boarding school trauma until they read about it.(Supplied: Christine Jack)
"I can only use the research that's coming out of the UK, because it hasn't been done here," she says.
Christine believes boarding school trauma is widespread in Australia, and says often people don't realise they're affected until they read or hear about it as adults.
"It wasn't traumatic for all children," she adds.
♦ /www.abc.net.au
Actor Alan Davies on why he won't talk about 'the A-word'.
Alan Davies, the English stand-up comedian, actor, quiz show panellist and author, has written a new book, Just Ignore Him – a memoir of his childhood in which some horrible things happen that reverberate through his whole life. It is sad and sometimes funny, fastidiously observed and beautifully written.
At its core, which permeates almost every page, is the greatest betrayal – after his mother died of leukaemia, when she was 38 and he was six-and-a-half, his father sexually abused him from the age of eight to 13.
♦ The Age article ♦ Also HERE if you can't access The Age
Father Glen Walsh paid a heavy price
By Chris Geraghty - 9 September 2020
The revelations never end about priests and brothers, of monsignors and bishops with their secret sexual lives,
masturbating, buggerizing, sodomizing and raping boys and girls – protected by an amoral hierarchy
and a few corrupt members of the upper-echelons of various police forces.
When will the swelling tide inside the Church of hostile responses (of outrage and anger, of humiliation, betrayal,
frustration and impotency) ever subside?
♦ MORE.... johnmenadue.com
Breach of Copyright / Defamation Claim by SoJ
Delete the whole website
See the Letter
I made this site ♦ www.jesuit-provincial-australia.com as a parody of the Provincial election process. No one looks at it, but their lawyers did and Brian McCoy SJ and sent the hosting company the letter above.
So the logo has been removed and an error in some information corrected.
Hope they are happy. this is called The Lawyer Led Response.
St Louis School, Claremont, Perth
A forgotten piece of Jesuit history.
the original school building
St. Louis School was a Catholic boys' school founded by the Jesuits – their only school in Western Australia. It opened on 23 May 1938 The Jesuits ran the School until 1971, when it was handed over to the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. There were 5 alleged sex offenders there between 1960-70............. More.....
St. Louis School was a Catholic boys' school founded by the Jesuits – their only school in Western Australia. It opened on 23 May 1938 The Jesuits ran the School until 1971, when it was handed over to the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. There were 5 alleged sex offenders there between 1960-70............. More.....
Found! The sex abusing scholastic in 1989
Paul McMahon |
Richard Leonard s.j. with Paul McMahon |
Mystery solved - it was Paul McMahon is now added to the long list of Jesuit sex abusers. Watch him on video here:
♦ https://www.youtube.com
Ridsdale Abuse victim receives multi-million-dollar payout from Catholic Church
September 27, 2019 The Catholic Church is expected to pay out as much as $3 million in a landmark legal settlement with a man who was raped in the confessional when he was a nine-year-old boy by notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale.
♦ Story here...
♦ Spike in claims against Church prompts calls for Andrews to intervene - Tha Age article
♦ 'Deeply sorry': Sydney Grammar School prints newspaper apology to boy for teacher's sexual abuse
The Age - Paedophile ring Investigation
♦..... More.....♦
Watch the Words Closely
These bits above from Peter Quin's funeral mass show how you have to read between the lines
to know what they are really saying. For example "he was a tactile man" , which has also been used to describe/excuse P.J. Stephenson SJ , Joseph Craig SJ and others.
Because everyone knew these priests were touching boys inappropriately all the time they try to find some way of explaining/excusing it. ♦..... More.....♦
Peter Kelly ex-s.j. ♦ Peter Kelly s.j. Biography
Peter Kelly s.j., the Provincial who moved Victor Higgs s.j. from Adelaide to Sydney, sexually assaulted a school girl when he was a priest and she was at school.
She subsequently put in a complaint (Mark Raper, Provincial) and was paid out.
Brian O'Reilly
♦ Brian O'Reilly Biography
Ex Xavier student phoned me to confirm this photo of O'Reilly.
He said O'Reilly was not a very nice man.
As above (Jan. 19, 2020):
A report has been received of Brian O'Reilly talking inappropriately (grooming) at St. Joesph's Marist Brothers, North Fitzroy, where he gained employment after Xavier College dismissed him for the same.
If Xavier College had acted properly he would not have been able to work in schools again.
What did Xavier College NOT say in his reference?
As above (Jan. 19, 2020):
A report has been received of Brian O'Reilly talking inappropriately (grooming) at St. Joesph's Marist Brothers, North Fitzroy, where he gained employment after Xavier College dismissed him for the same.
If Xavier College had acted properly he would not have been able to work in schools again.
What did Xavier College NOT say in his reference?
Fr./Br. Lawrence Leonard s.j.
♦ Lawrence Leonard s.j. Biography
Repeatedly pinching a boy's bum at Riverview and taking boys into his room.
Currently advising catholic families on how to manage gay family members in Melbourne.
2009, April. Old Xaverian Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart appointed Fr Laurie Leonard SJ as chaplain to the EnCourage and Courage groups.
Currently advising catholic families on how to manage gay family members in Melbourne.
2009, April. Old Xaverian Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart appointed Fr Laurie Leonard SJ as chaplain to the EnCourage and Courage groups.
Boarders' Master A
♦ Boarders Master A Biography
AND - In or around 1997 a Boarders' Master
was in a sexual relationship with a year 12 student.
A parent of the boy complained to the school. She was told if it became public her son would suffer the humiliation of being known as gay, other boys would have their studies disrupted and exam results affected.
♦..... More.....♦
A parent of the boy complained to the school. She was told if it became public her son would suffer the humiliation of being known as gay, other boys would have their studies disrupted and exam results affected.
♦..... More.....♦
Geelong College $1 million settlement
♦ Geelong College $1 million settlement
In behaviour very much like the catholic church, the school never referred the allegations to police, but in 2004 agreed to pay for 10 counselling sessions on the conditions the victim sign a confidentiality agreement and waive his common law rights.
The settlement offer was made 2 hours before the case was due to go to trial. Legal Brinkmanship just like the Jesuits.
Trinity Grammar settles sexual abuse case for $1 million
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February 01, 2020 Prestigious Melbourne school Trinity Grammar has paid out more than $1 million to a former student for the historical sexual abuse he suffered. John Turner, abused in 1974 when he was 16 by boarding master Leslie Wiggins, said he felt vindicated.
The Philip Wallbridge story ♦ Philip Wallbridge s.j. Biography
Philip Wallbridge at Xavier College 1976 |
January 27, 2020 - The Age newspaper is running a story about the death of
Philip Wallbridge
and how the school will respond to it.
♦ The Age - Xavier College grapples with historical sex abuse claims ♦ And HERE if you can't see The Age. 
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