The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the Vatican rarely comments on sexual scandal involving priests and the prompt admission of this priest's suspension is unusual.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has allegedly joined an ignominious but not so uncommon fraternity--that of political leaders and business executives marred by sexual scandal.
In the Catholic Church, perhaps the worst of the sexual scandal reported outside of the Irish fiasco took place within the secretive, almost cult-like, Legion of Christ.
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Two younger hopefuls, Bobby Jindal (governor of Louisiana) and Mark Sanford (governor of South Carolina) have self-destructed, one with a dismal speech, the other with a sexual scandal.
Business leaders who become the object of sexual scandal don't fare nearly as well, probably because it's more difficult to oust a politician than an executive, and scandals are quickly reflected in share prices.
Early in our history an incident involving one of the authors of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, shows clearly the bright line between, on the one hand, a private sexual scandal, and on the other, a public obligation--a line the president has intentionally crossed.
The recent sexual abuse scandal at Penn State is similar to the abuse scandals that have plagued the Catholic Church in recent years.
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An example of a case where this independent investigation worked is the Louis Freeh Report regarding Penn State and the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal.
Gov. Tom Corbett announced a federal lawsuit against the NCAA asking a court to throw out all sanctions against Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal in Pennsylvania.
Still, there are weeks left in the session that has seen not only the sexual harassment scandal, but also an FBI investigation into corruption in which an assemblyman wore a wire.
As the military considers sweeping changes for women, a senior Air Force leader told a House panel examining a sexual-abuse scandal at a Texas base on Wednesday that his branch of the military needs to improve its culture to root out problems, such as binge drinking and vulgar images, that can be conducive to sexual harassment.
In June 2007, former Israeli President Moshe Katsav resigned after a year-long scandal in which several former employees accused him of sexual assault and harassment, and one accused him of rape.
The Vatican official charged with prosecuting sexual crimes has acknowledged that the US media helped the Church confront the abuse scandal.
In July last year, six months after Paterno's death from lung cancer, all of Penn State's results from 1998 to 2011 were expunged from the records as the result of the child abuse scandal which saw Sandusky jailed for 30 years after being found guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse.
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