Tag: Cults

Catholicism is by far the country’s largest religious grouping, so we might feel safe from recent parliamentary and media attention on cults. However, we need to be wary of any push by the State to ban religious belief or practice for the good of the believers themselves, writes Monica Doumit.

A Victorian inquiry investigating the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and fringe groups is set to convene in just under a year’s time, in a move experts warn may affect religious freedom in Australia.

Those who followed the “Little Pebble” were not gullible “brainwashed” drones of popular stereotypes, but rather pious and serious Catholics who found themselves adrift in a changing church and were led into error, sin and abuse, writes Professor Bernard Doherty

Police allege Kamm, 73, who for decades has referred to himself as the “Little Pebble,” allegedly groomed a young girl to be his future partner through phone calls, letters and gifts with the aid of Sandra Susan Mathison, 58.