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The Murphy Commission notes: ‘‘This canon [Canon 1341] was interpreted to mean that bishops are required to attempt to reform the abusers in the first place." In Dublin, efforts were made to reform abusing priests by sending them to therapeutic centres. But, according to the commission, ‘‘the archdiocese seems to have been reluctant to go beyond the reform process, even when it was abundantly clear that the reform process had failed’’.
But, more tellingly, the commission stated they ‘‘could find very little evidence, particularly in the early decades of the commission’s remit, of any attempt by church authorities to restore justice to the victims’’.

It says the question of harm to the victims never seemed to have been considered by the archdiocese.

I've never seen this publication posted here, so I went to check it out. Here's another article from the same source that clues you in as to where they're coming from:

The winner of the Post Mortem Outstanding Achievement of the Decade Award is: the great ape (or whatever animal immediately precedes humans on the evolutionary path). The apes win because they haven’t destroyed the planet. The apes win because they don’t spend huge amounts of money trying to find newer, nastier ways of killing each other. The apes win because they don’t spend insane amounts of money on nuclear weapons, instead of giving it to very poor apes. The apes win because half of their population isn’t obese, while the other starves to death. The apes win because half of their population doesn’t suffer from floods, while the other half has barely any water. The apes win because they don’t spend more money on entertainment than they do on drugs that might alleviate the suffering of fellow apes. The apes win because they don’t fly planes into buildings full of other apes. The apes win because they don’t invade other ape nations on the most spurious of grounds. The apes win because they aren’t constantly waging war on other ape nations over ape land, ape oil or ape religion. The apes win because they don’t form organised religions in which children are sexually abused by members of the religion while other senior members don..."

Go to the site to read the rest if you want. Puts this report, which I've not seen anywhere else, in context. (The apes win because they don't suffer from floods? Huh?)

Cannon 1341 states that the bishop is to ‘‘start a judicial administrative procedure, for the imposition or the declaration of penalties, only when he perceives that neither by fraternal correction nor reproof, nor by any methods of pastoral care, can the scandal be sufficiently repaired, justice restored, and the offender reformed’’.

I looked up Cannon 1341 on Google. This is the first page of results:

http://www.i4es.org/resumes/KFucikResume.pdf

http://www.lawyersdirections.com/oregon/cannon-beach/619334-101-press-inc.html

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2003/0155.html

http://www.stateoforegon.com/directory.php?name=&city=Cannon+Beach&form=biz

http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2008/pr0811_01d.pdf

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-religion/2411895/posts(link to this thread)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canon_EOS_3_img_1341.jpg

http://openjurist.org/280/f3d/1341

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1341 (an article about the year 1341).

Sorry, Alex. I can't find any references to Cannon 1341 that back up your claim. Do you have any more?