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WHO ARE THE VINCENTAN FATHERHOOD

St Stanislaus College, Bathurst.

**** Let us work with a new love in service of the poor, looking for the most destitute and abandoned among them. Let us recognize that before God they are our Lords and masters, and we are unworthy to render them our small services.
–St. Vincent de Paul (SV XI, 393)

The St Vincent society released a letter regarding there fellow Vincentans - this can be found on the Facebook, Twitter social media sites:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015802998236

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The Congregation of the Mission is a community of Roman Catholic priests and brothers founded by St. Vincent de Paul in 1625 for the evangelization of the poor and the formation of the clergy.

The Australian Catholic Church has released "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes.

Vincentian priests and brothers total over 4000 worldwide and serve in 86 countries.

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The Congregation of the Mission (Congregatio Missionis; abbreviated as "C.M." in the Roman Catholic Church) is a vowed Roman Catholic society of apostolic life of priests and brothers founded by St. Vincent de Paul. It is associated with the Vincentian Family, a loose federation of organizations who claim St. Vincent de Paul as their founder or Patron. They are popularly known as Vincentians, or Paules, Lazarites, Lazarists and Lazarians.

The Vincentian Family, the heritage of Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, Frederic Ozanam, Elizabeth Seton and so many others seeks to coordinate its efforts to collaborate for systemic change:

The Vincentian Family Executive Committee (VFEC), comprised of selected leaders of the Vincentian Family.
The Vincentian Family Office (VFO), a newly developed initiative to assist the Family.
The Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission (VFCC) and the Vincentian Family Collaborative Action Program (VFCAP) to train Vincentian family members in collaborative skills and planning.
The Vincentian Comission for Promoting Systemic Change (VCPSC), promoting collaborative projects that change entire systems to alleviate poverty.
The Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative (VFHI), a systemic change project now managed by an independent non-profit structure.
Links to THE BRANCHES of the Vincentian Family, both lay and religious.
Who We Are and What We Do: our mission and purpose as a spiritual family dedicated to the preaching of the Gospel in the world of the impoverished.

We have our heroes to guide and inspire us on our journey…

Vincent de Paul lived during the 17th century in France. His funeral drew thousands in Paris and the preacher said that he “just about changed the face of the Church and France”.

(If he knew what was happening and the abuse would he put his name to the Vincentians)

The Vincentian fathers also run a number of second level schools, most notably in Dublin, Ireland where the order is in charge of two such institutions.

Castleknock College, Dublin, Ireland
St. Paul's College, Raheny, Dublin, Ireland
Colégio São Vicente de Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
St Stanislaus College (Bathurst), New South Wales, Australia
Österreichisches Sankt Georgs-Kolleg, Istanbul, Turkey
The comprises organizations inspired by the life and work of St. Vincent de Paul, a 17th-century priest who "transformed the face of France."
He directly founded the Confraternities of Charity (today known as the A.I.C.) the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Frederic Ozanam, inspired by a Daughter of Charity, Rosalie Rendu, founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Sr. Betty Ann McNeill, D.C. has written a definitive work identifying some 268 institutes that meet at least one criterion as members of the Vincentian Family. The Vincentian Family, inter alia, has, as its incumbent head, Father Tomaž Mavrič, C.M., of Buenos Aires, the incumbent worldwide superior general of the Congregation of the Mission, elected during the community's 42nd General Assembly (June 27–July 15, 2016) in Chicago.[1]

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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE VINCENTAN FAMILY

Suspicious and no explanations, just faded away.

This is the most substantial dataset released to date about the extent of child sex abuse within the Australian Catholic Church, and was done with cooperation from them as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

4,444 alleged cases recorded, how that number came out who knows. Its up over 20,000.

More cover up's

Counsel Gail Furness, SC, said 4,444 alleged child sex abuse incidents were recorded in the survey. Ninety per cent of the victims were boys, with their average age at time of abuse being 11-and-a-half years old. Girls were only 10-and-a-half years old on average when they were abused.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-06/child-sex-abuse-royal-commission:-data-reveals-catholic-abuse/8243890

Old boy calls school a pedophile paradise

Damien Murphy
September 6, 2008

JUST seven weeks ago Pope Benedict XVI apologised for the "evil" of clergy sex abuse in Australia during his World Youth Day visit, but the legacy of predatory priests still preys on St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst.

While sex abuse by priests, brothers and teachers at Catholic schools and orphanages has been an issue since the 1980s, the arrest of three Vincentian priests who once taught at the school, coupled with the apparent suicide of a brother and the order's $40,000 payment to a former student - while permitting the priest he accused to continue contact with children - has irrevocably stained St Stanislaus.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/old-boy-calls-school-a-pedophile-paradise/2008/09/05/1220121526764.html

Cover ups are a common thing

Broken Rites advised Peter to ask the Vincentians' Australian head office (in Sydney) to show him Wilson's death certificate, so as to make sure that he was really dead (and that he had not been sent to another country, as sometimes happens). Strangely, the Vincentian head office was reluctant to let Peter see the certificate but eventually in 1994 it sent a Catholic Church representative from Melbourne (named Shane Wall), who showed Peter a copy of the death certificate. The certificate said that the death (on 22 September 1979) was caused by asphyxiation (lack of oxygen).

The Vincentians behaved nervously about the certificate. Peter was allowed to read the document (in the presence of the church representative) but not to keep it or copy it. As soon as Peter had read the certificate, the church representative (acting under instructions from the Vincentians) tore up the document. All this seemed very mysterious.

Meanwhile, Broken Rites located Wilson's death notice and funeral notice in the Sydney Morning Herald, dated 25 September 1979. These notices said that the death occurred at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst, and Wilson was buried in the Vincentian section of the Catholic cemetery at Rookwood, Sydney.

Peter later learned informally, from Vincentian priests whom he knew, that Wilson's death occurred in suspicious circumstances in his bedroom at St Stanislaus, aged 44 years. The death was caused by a gas heater in his bedroom.

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As Judge Michael Finnane, QC, pondered what lay ahead for Brian Spillane he remarked: "It is almost unheard of for one person to be involved in so many trials." The former priest was convicted yesterday by a District Court jury on nine counts of indecent assault and the bail hearing that followed heard the former chaplain of St Stanislaus College, Bathurst, faces a further 135 charges

More Priests Arrested Over Abuse at St Stanislaus

The former president and vice-president of St Stanislaus College were charged with 32 sex offenses in a day of explosive developments in a police pedophile investigation yesterday.

Priest Peter Dwyer, 65, from a church property in Armidale and Brother John Gaven, 66, from church lodgings in Marsfield were living within 150m of Catholic primary schools at the time of their arrest.
Priests, teachers 'in pedophile ring'

The college revealed Gaven was thrown off the Bathurst property in July after he arrived for World Youth Day events, a week after a warrant naming him as an accused was served on the school.
Police removed 20 bags and five boxes of items from Gaven's house in Vincentia St, Marsfield before he was charged with 28 offences. The Vincentian Brother joined the order at 18 and was described in a church newsletter in July as having, "always been passionate about youth."
He has been an adviser to the St Vincent De Paul national youth team for more than a decade and, after finishing a 30-year career in colleges and seminaries, began working with HIV/AIDS sufferers in 1992.

Police went to Dwyer's home in Dangar St, Armidale before he was charged with four offences. He has left the Vincentian order and worked in northern NSW.
Gaven's lawyer Greg Walsh said his client was innocent and claimed the case had been tainted by police and internet postings by one of the alleged victims.
"He emphatically denies all of the allegations," Mr Walsh said.

School principal John Edwards said the college would help police as they investigate the allegations before confirming that he had directed Gaven be asked to leave the school property on July 9.
Dwyer and Gaven were bailed to appear in Bathurst Local Court on September 15.

On Tuesday the college's former chaplain Brian Spillane, 65, had 33 sex offence charges against five students upgraded - to bring the total number of charges of 93.
Meanwhile, the police investigation of sex abuse allegations from the 1980s at St Stanislaus has also begun investigating a second Bathurst school - the Anglican All Saints College. But police do not believe, at this stage, that the two cases are linked.

Police swooped on a 63-year-old former teacher at his home in Queensland yesterday and charged him with three counts of indecent assault on a boy in 1973.
Superintendent Michael Goodwin said police had new complaints, including from women, which have emerged since news of the investigation broke last week

More Arrests Over School 'Pedophile Ring'

A Catholic brother and a former teacher have been arrested over an alleged pedophile ring at a Catholic boys school in Bathurst in central west New South Wales, police say.
The 66-year-old brother, from Marsfield in Sydney's north, and a 63-year-old teacher living in Brisbane were arrested this morning, police said.

Both were arrested over offences that police allege took place at St Stanislaus' College from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. No charges have yet been laid.
Police suspect dozens of boys may have been abused during alleged hypnotic "prayer" sessions at the boarding school.

The names of at least three former staffers of the college were listed on a police search warrant when detectives arrived at the school in July to search its archives.
Former priest Brian Spillane, 65, from Narwee in Sydney's south-west, was charged in May with 33 offences and last night had a further 60 charges laid against him after eight more alleged victims came forward.

As a result of additional information, police said their investigation had been expanded to two other secondary schools in Bathurst.
Currently, 615 boys attend St Stanislaus', of which 188 are borders.
St Stanislaus' principal John Edwards said last week he first became aware of the allegations "several years ago" and referred the claims to police.
He said the allegations included claims of late-night prayer and chanting sessions in which boys were sexually abused.

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School 'Urges Students to Read Penthouse'

The police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate a flood of new abuse claims involving St Stanislaus College as a former college boarder subjected to horrific late-night prayer sessions told his story yesterday.

Dallas McInerney, 35, condemned the Bathurst school - which only this week was allegedly encouraging its students to read Penthouse magazines - for retaining the Vincentian Fathers as governors while police investigated claims up to four staff were involved in abuse of students.
School principal John Edwards confirmed yesterday the school was served with two warrants on July 2, with the names of three former staff members listed under the title "accused" and that the police were seeking documents and material from the school which was referred to as a crime scene.
As sex-crime police began work on the case with Bathurst detectives, Mr McInerney yesterday described the "unorthodox" prayer sessions as filled with "chanting, music, no electric lighting, the whole atmosphere was one of sedation".

Police have spoken at length to Mr McInerney, who lives in Sydney. He declined to speak about the contents of his statement to police but said his former school needed to do more.
"The college needs to take more drastic action than it has to date, the Vincentians should withdraw themselves from the governing council of the college while the investigation is ongoing," he said.
He fired off a letter to Mr Edwards this week after reading the school's newsletter in which a teacher was asked what he considered recommended reading for every teenage boy.

Part of the answer was reproduced as "PeCENSOREDse" but Mr McInerney said he read it as a reference to the magazine Penthouse and he said he was shocked such a reference would be made in a newsletter, which also informed parents of sexual abuse claims.

A police spokesman said the response from former students yesterday had prompted police to call in the state crime command's sex crimes squad.

Priests, Teachers 'in Pedophile Ring' at St Stanislaus school

Police investigating claims up to 40 boys were sexually abused over seven years by priests and teachers at this exclusive private school have urged more alleged victims to come forward.
Detective Superintendent Michael Goodwin said today police understood the difficulties involved in confronting the past and would offer witnesses their full support.
"All I can say is that NSW police force will be providing every form of support we possibly can to make the process for them as trouble-free as possible.

The walls of St Stanislaus college in Bathurst have housed budding Wallabies players and the bravest of war correspondents but an unimaginable secret has been stored for more than 20 years. A former priest at the school has been charged with 33 counts, a former teacher has already been convicted of several offences and two other teachers are under investigation.

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Supt Goodwin would not reveal how many suspects are being investigated but said police inquiries had not led officers to any other schools where former St Stanislaus staff may have also been employed.
"All of the lines of inquiry that have been presented to us have been explored and are being investigated,'' he said.
"There's no loose ends being let go at this stage.
"I can confirm that there's no one at the school at the moment that is subject to that inquiry.''
In his first interview, a brave young man who used the internet to expose the abuse revealed the full extent of the horror at the school. He is one of two victims who have told The Daily Telegraph how they were herded into a prayer room by a priest chanting "hypnotic" spells in tongues.
Inside the prayer room, the boarders who attended the school in the 1980s, said they were subjected to horrendous sexual abuse or forced to assault each other.

St Stanislaus has enjoyed a reputation for sporting excellence and tutoring future representatives of Australia.
A former boarder now aged 35, who cannot be identified because of a court suppression order, started at St Stanislaus in the '80s because it was the only private school in the area his family could afford.
He alleged the abuse began after a priest took him aside for private tutoring about the Catholic Church and God two months after he arrived at the school and the horror turned into a twice-weekly event.
"They got a group between eight and 12 of us together and they'd just start chanting and I would wake up during these sessions and see what was going on," he said.
"It was like an orgy."

The second victim, who declined to give permission to be named, described the horrific night time prayer sessions in the staff's quarters under candle light.
"You'd pass out . . . they spoke in tongues . . . another element was called laying on hands, that was the basis he would engage in physical contact," the victim said.
He said the students were all small in stature and many of them emotionally troubled.
It is expected the victim count could reach 40 but some people have been unwilling to talk about the past.

"I know of people who have been contacted, they said, 'Yes, you're right but I haven't told my wife what happened to me I'm not going to tell you guys (police)," he said.
Principal John Edwards said yesterday the school viewed any allegation of sexual misconduct with "grave concern" and had been working with the police.
Inside the prayer room, the boarders who attended the school in the 1980s, said they were subjected to horrendous sexual abuse or forced to assault each other.
St Stanislaus has enjoyed a reputation for sporting excellence and tutoring future representatives of Australia.

A former boarder now aged 35, who cannot be identified because of a court suppression order, started at St Stanislaus in the '80s because it was the only private school in the area his family could afford.
He alleged the abuse began after a priest took him aside for private tutoring about the Catholic Church and God two months after he arrived at the school and the horror turned into a twice-weekly event.
"They got a group between eight and 12 of us together and they'd just start chanting and I would wake up during these sessions and see what was going on," he said.

33 charges for ex-St Stan's priest

http://cathnews.com/cathnews/10553-33-charges-for-ex-st-stans-priest

There is a lot more to add will keep updating!!