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• Church of England set for November 20 vote on women bishops
• Faulkner Estate Sues Woody Allen; There Will Be No 'Vaginas' in Christian Bookstores
• Vatican synod warns of "eclipse" of faith in rich countries

Church of England set for November 20 vote on women bishops Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:16 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England is to vote on November 20 on whether to allow the ordination of women bishops, the culmination of more than 10 years of debate on one of the most divisive issues within the Anglican community. Women already serve as bishops in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, but the Church of England, the mother church for the world's 80 million Anglicans, has struggled to reconcile the dispute between reformers and traditionalists on whether to allow them in England. ...

Faulkner Estate Sues Woody Allen; There Will Be No 'Vaginas' in Christian Bookstores Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:07 AM PDT Today in books and publishing: Midnight in Paris didn't have permission for Faulkner quote; "vagina" scandalizes evangelicals; John Grisham read Fifty Shades; Jacques Barzun dies.

Vatican synod warns of "eclipse" of faith in rich countries Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:27 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic faith in many advanced countries risks being "eclipsed" by an increasingly secularized and materialistic world, bishops who discussed strategies on how to woo lapsed faithful back to the fold said on Friday. The alarm was sounded in the final message of a synod of bishops from around the world who met at the Vatican on the theme of the "New Evagelisation", or the need to stop the hemorrhaging of the faithful, particularly in developed countries. ...

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