Research by Broken Rites Australia — conducted
continuously from 1994 to today — has revealed that the Catholic Church
knowingly harboured the paedophile priest Father Denis McAlinden for 40
years, thus inflicting him on young girls in parishes around Australia
and also overseas.
This Broken Rites research eventually helped to bring about the New South Wales government's decision to establish a Special Commission of Inquiry in 2013 to investigate how church officials and police had handled allegations of child-sex crimes by Father McAlinden (and another priest) in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, north of Sydney.
http://brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/86
This Broken Rites research eventually helped to bring about the New South Wales government's decision to establish a Special Commission of Inquiry in 2013 to investigate how church officials and police had handled allegations of child-sex crimes by Father McAlinden (and another priest) in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, north of Sydney.
http://brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/86