New accounts have followed nearly every day in what has become a major sexual and political scandal.

And among high officials brought down by sexual scandal, he has no rivals.

That promotion itself was an effect of the church's sexual abuse scandal.

It is part of a larger sexual scandal that the Army regards as the most serious in its history.

The accusations against him were brought to the attention of the district attorney's office before the current sexual abuse scandal became known.

Until the sexual abuse scandals of the last year, he said, "I had pretty much blocked it out."

Other bishops, however, have been meeting with victims in years past, and more recently as the sexual abuse scandal has spread.

They watched as the parade of public sexual scandals in the military mirrored their private stories.

The opprobrium that went with sexual scandal was usually difficult to bear.

Father Shanley, 71, has become a central figure in the sexual abuse scandals.