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• Study predicts women in power, Muslims heading West (AFP)
• Pope canonizes first Australian saint, 5 others (AP)
• Church of England bishop plans Catholic conversion (AP)
• Australian Catholics honor nun as first saint (Reuters)

Study predicts women in power, Muslims heading West (AFP) Posted: 17 Oct 2010 02:30 PM PDT AFP - In the next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power, Muslim immigration to the West will rise, and office workers will be unchained from their cubicles, a report released last week says.

Pope canonizes first Australian saint, 5 others (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2010 08:55 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed Australia's first saint on Sunday, canonizing a 19th-century nun and also declaring five other saints in an open-air Mass attended by tens of thousands.

Church of England bishop plans Catholic conversion (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2010 07:02 AM PDT AP - A Church of England assistant bishop and a parish church have announced that they intend to become Roman Catholics within a new structure set up by Pope Benedict XVI.

Australian Catholics honor nun as first saint (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT Reuters - Thousands of Australians poured onto the streets and into churches on Sunday to mark the impending canonization of a feisty nun who died a century ago as the country's first Roman Catholic saint.

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