Bishop Says Shanley Endorsed Sexual Abuse
The man who is now bishop of New York’s Brooklyn Diocese said in a sworn statement made public here that he knew Father Paul Shanley endorsed sex between men and boys when he promoted him two decades ago to head a Boston-area parish.
At the time, Thomas V. Daily was chancellor, vicar general and auxiliary bishop in the Boston Archdiocese. Daily promoted Shanley to administrator and acting pastor at St. Jean’s parish in Newton.
Shanley, 71, is one of the priests at the center of the sex scandal engulfing the archdiocese. He was arrested May 2 in San Diego and extradited to Massachusetts, where he was indicted in June.
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