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COMMENTS: Vatican Calling
There was only a single package filed by a reporter on any of the three newscasts that had a foreign angle--and even that was filed from a New York City dateline. CBS' Jim Axelrod told us about the Vatican's decision to ease its rules for allowing Anglican Christians to convert to Roman Catholicism almost 500 years after the Church of England rejected the authority of the Pope. Axelrod explained that Rome is looking for conservatives disaffected by ordained women and married homosexuals. Anglican priests who happen to be married--male heterosexual ones--would be allowed to keep their collars. Axelrod speculated that "one of the unintended consequences for the Catholic Church might be to open up debate about priests and celibacy."
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