Dublin Diocesan Report

Today's publication raises issues over reports on abusers by the Granada Institute.

In one case of a priest named as Fr Terentius there were a number of errors in the report forwarded by the Institute.

It states that in the Granada report that the priest had not admitted to any allegations when in fact he had admitted to several incidents involving six young boys.

The Commission states that the report from the Granada Institute was 'seriously deficient'.

The Granada report also states that two boys were 17 years of age at the time of abuse when according to the Commission they were 13 or 14 years of age.

Another claim in the report from Granada about Fr Terentius states that he is undergoing therapy on an individual basis

The Commission questions this as well as a number of other claims in the report.

Lists kept

The report from the Commission also says it is 'astonished' that the Granada Institute in a report on a 'Fr Laurentius' who compiled lists of his sexual conquests claimed the act was an admission of wrongdoing on his part.

The report describes him as a promiscuous man who had sexual relationships with women in all of the countries in which he ministered.

The priest ordained in 1966 has been barred from ministry since 1996.

He claims all his sexual relationships were with adults but there are two complaints from named underage girls in Ireland.

The report details a series of sexual encounters the priest had with women in several different locations.

After an initial complaint of abuse from a girl aged 16, the order deemed it would be unjust to remove him from the area in which he was serving because his history was with adult women.

In 1997, the priest provided the head of his order with a list of women he had had sexual relationships with.

He had relationships with eight women while in Africa, 26 women in Ireland and 12 in 'first world' countries.

He provided the names and ages of all the women and also named girls aged as young as 15 with whom he said he had a 'friendship'.

The report concludes that church authorities were 'remarkably tolerant' of breaches of their rules where sexual activity with adults is concerned.

It describes his list of sexual conquests as 'astonishing' and says the detail in respect of age and precise sexual activity is 'simply unbelievable'.

The Commission says in its view the list is compiled with a view to establishing that he was not a child abuser.