can reveal the Christian Brothers’ Australian wing has already spent more than $213 million on victims’ payouts and legal expenses in the past six years, with the order expecting to outlay at least another $134 million in the future.Angela Wylie
Despite the blowout, the order insists it will be able to meet its commitments to survivors through the continued “responsible management of our finances''.services such as counselling and psychological services," a spokesman for the Christian Brothers Oceania Province said. Among them were brothers Gerald Leo Fitzgerald, Edward Dowlan, and Robert Best from St Alipius in Ballarat - the same school that harboured notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale and became one of the most shocking examples of the church’s crimes and cover-ups.
Despite this, the group has continued to hemorrhage money: last year, for instance, the Christian Brothers generated nearly $22 million in revenue but spent $134 million on sex abuse claims. And even after receiving a $75 million contribution from the Oceania Province, it was still nearly $66 million in deficit.
But the fact that the Christian Brothers’ Australian wing is relying on massive funding injections to operate raises questions about the group’s future here. This is in stark contrast to a generation ago when the Christian Brothers, one of the Catholic Church's main teaching orders, ran and manned schools in cities across the nation. While many are still operating, almost all of those schools are run by lay staff dedicated to Catholic values.
I hope they go broke.... They were the worst of the worst. Anything that happens to them and the Catholic Church is not near enough
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OrganizedAbuse RitualViolence ChristianBrothers 'Sexualized violence in organized structures of violence and in ritual structures of violence'
And the bad news is ...?
They shouldnt fck kids
So they should be , the Christian brothers have to pay for their blatant sexual abusive conduct . It is not acceptable as they would know .
they used to hit me across the face during the religious period,when I'd yawn out loud,,no wonder I hate authority figures
Awwwww all together now - 1, 2, 3 Diddums. Hope they go as bankrupt financially as you are morally
They should be completely destroyed financially, and forced to close down their religious money making racket! Just a bunch of pedophiles calling themselves holy and righteous!🙁👎
Only because their was such a virulent system of abuse and cover-up, and how many thousands of victims?!
The legal system laughing all the way to the bank. How does money fix this problem?
Your thoughts please LyleShelton
Good riddance....hope more follow!!
“The royal commission found the Christian Brothers were among the worst perpetrators of child abuse in the country, with 22 per cent of its religious members being identified as alleged abusers.” They need to pay every penny they owe victims & too bad if they go broke doing it.
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It's called punishment for allowing paedophile priests to assault children and covering it up, moving them to another parish to offend again and again. No sympathy from me.
Weren’t they supposed to live a meagre and humble life anyway? How did they amass so much money? And why aren’t they paying taxes like regular working folk? They presumably use all the infrastructure we pay for...
The same old story we need more money,and the stupid people who think they are going to some place that has been made up will still give their money in the hope. They don’t believe in fairs,Father Christmas,but they do in god. As the saying goes one born ever minute.
Didn’t they take a vow of poverty?
my school was run by Marist brothers...four pedophiles have been outed since I left the school...that's one school by the way...
Care factor of exactly 0 😂
And we also have a PM hanging out with Houston, his mentorat his church, who got special mention at the child abuse commission for protecting a paedophile. Also still being investigated by the police too. We only have to best leaders
So?
Tough shit
auspol Boo hoo! That figure shld have been more! But so many victims of child sex abuse by clergy are now already deceased & never received any compensation at all ! I have absolutely no sympathy for any religious or other organisation who has been covering up for paedophiles!
Bankruptcy is a virtue.
Lets hope they go broke and go out of business.
Good I hope they're on bread and water. They're the ones who ruined my late husband's life
Not hard when you don’t pay a cent of tax
Call in KordaMentha
Sex abuse and Church , they not together . Pay you all .also give your pains filth Priests .......................... No mercy for you .
The Catholic Church pays no tax. It owns bilions of dollars worth of real estate across Australia. It has billions more at its disposal via the Vatican. And yet they whinge about paying restitution for abuse victms. Freedom of religion at worlk.
The Vatican is the wealthiest organization on earth. I doubt this is true. Poor pedophile darlings.
All the while, the government is attacking unions
How the majority of the faithful can be brought down by the unfaithful minority
Payed 213 million and they're still operating? What a joke!
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