Last month, the Christian Brothers, a Catholic order with a shocking record of child abuse, informed a court it was going broke and would not be able to afford to pay out survivors.
An actuarial report detailing the state of the Christian Brothers finances was released to the media on Monday, alongside other court documents.
The report reveals there are currently 340 redress claims involving the Christian Brothers, which will cost the religious order an estimated $25m.
But the report also predicts the Christian Brothers will be subject to another 590 redress claims, worth $40m, in future years.
Survivors and plaintiff law firms are angry that the Christian Brothers has spent the past decade transferring vast and lucrative holdings of property to a separate entity, known as the Trustees of Edmund Rice Education Australia, for nominal amounts of $1. That entity is resisting any attempt to sell off those properties to help pay survivors.
Plibersek said the government would take a “forensic approach” to the matter.
Start seizing Catholic churches and selling them off until the bill is paid.
Parish churches have nothing to do with the abuses of the religious teaching orders and their protectors among bishops and the Catholic hierarchy in general. Parish churches, overall, provide a positive service in communities. The money and power is with the wheelers and dealers behind the scenes.
If they are part of it they are part of it.
True.
they send money to headquarters and they use organisation resources
they have known for decades the organisation is corrupt
since the church is not democratic, they don’t choose their leaders and there is little accountability with organisation the only choice members can make is to not join, to not give money to the org
if they want to do charity they can set up their own org that is independent or do it on a personal basis