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Catholic leader Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who heads up the Anglican church, at the Vatican in 2006. The Vatican has eased the way for Anglicans unhappy with the Church of England's ordination of female and homosexual clergy to convert to Catholicism. (AFP/File/Alessandro Bianchi)

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