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Inevitably, the scandals have made it harder to attract new men. Father Brian D'Arcy, superior of the Passionist Monastery in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, says the only way to reverse the trend may be to relax long-standing rules. "Of course it would be a big help if priests were allowed to marry or if we could ordain married men," he says. "Good men are being driven out by foolish [rules]." [rules]," D'Arcy says. (Read a brief history of celibacy...
...such rewards, especially as they are reasonably attainable for people of such high abilities, became hard to resist. Most Rhodes Scholars who don’t have a passion for the most remunerative careers (when one cannot fairly quarrel) still do resist, but they tell me it gets harder every year...
...Americans now think even more troops will improve the American position in this war, according to a recent CBS News poll, including just 17% of Obama's Democratic base. So the President's aides needed to upgrade the setting, interrupt the networks' prime-time lineups and tug a bit harder at the nation's patriotic heartstrings. (Read the full transcript of Obama's speech...
...Swedish model wife (who told police she smashed the SUV's rear window with a golf club to help extract her injured husband) were having a domestic argument heated enough to contribute to the accident - Woods' reticence, or lying, will come crashing down on his credibility much harder than it would on Joe Schmo. An FHP spokeswoman on Monday acknowledged, for example, that the agency could still request Woods' medical records from the hospital he was taken to briefly after the accident. (See pictures of Tiger Woods' car accident on Golf.com...
...great stamina,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said. “He can go longer, harder than most other people...