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The new pope inherits a church wrestling with an array of challenges that intensified during his predecessor, Benedict XVI, including a shortage of priests, growing competition from evangelical churches in the Southern Hemisphere, a sexual abuse crisis that has undermined the church's moral authority in the West and difficulties governing the Vatican itself.

The choice of Francis, who is 76, also defied some predictions that the 115 cardinals would opt for a young pope who could energize the church at a time when it faces a shortage of priests, growing competition from evangelical churches in the Southern Hemisphere, a sexual abuse crisis that has undermined the church's moral authority in the West and difficulties governing the Vatican itself.

Charles de Gaulle once remarked on the difficulty of governing a country with some 240 different kinds of cheese.

On top of all these failures was the sheer, maddening difficulty of governing such a huge country.

Mr. Hastert, a conciliator whom the conservatives say they trust, has set a less combative tone and explained the difficulty of governing with so slim a majority.

The maneuvering shows the difficulty of governing in a state where legislative power is split between Republicans and Democrats who represent different regions of the state.

The simmering scandal is "a point of political weakness," he said, adding, "It poses greater difficulty for governing even his allies".

And now even less will be.Part of this failure is attributable to the intrinsic difficulty of governing Indonesia at all.

Camden's difficulty in governing itself was underscored recently when the City Council asked the state to assist in running the city attorney's office, which has been incapacitated by scandal.

Since the country achieved independence in 1975, one of its principal challenges has been the difficulty of governing many hundreds of diverse, once-isolated local societies as a viable single nation.

He pleaded almost plaintively for Iraqis to appreciate how far the country had come since its darkest days — and the sheer difficulty of governing a divided country at war.