Paedophile priest advised to apologise

A priest who admitted molesting teenage boys while they slept was advised by a church review board in the 1990s to put an apology in his personnel file in case more victims came forward.

His case was outlined in the latest batch of personnel files to be released by lawyers suing the Boston Archdiocese over its handling of paedophile priests. The latest batch consists of about 3,000 pages on 13 priests.

The documents contain a variety of allegations, including those made against the Rev Joseph Coleman, who was accused by a woman of molesting her 14-year-old son in 1987.