“I think it’s going to be looked at, and I am not so sure it wouldn’t be a good idea to decide on the basis of geography and culture not to make an across-the-board determination.”

— Retiring New York Cardinal Edward Egan,
discussing priestly celibacy yesterday on an Albany radio show.
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