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"Former prime minister Tony Blair is expected to be received into the Catholic Church within weeks, Catholic newspaper The Tablet will say in its Saturday edition.

The weekly said it understood that Blair, an Anglican, was to convert to the religion of his lawyer wife Cherie and their four children.

Blair is likely to be received into the Church by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster and the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, the newspaper said."

LINK (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5itOUqP7NpLcyJjLaZ8bjr2RPgrmA)

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"The wife of a Protestant bishop has converted to Roman Catholicism with the public blessing of both churches.

"I believe strongly in the freedom of religion and freedom to express your religious identity," said Archbishop Alan Harper, leader of the Anglican-affiliated Church of Ireland.

"She has made what was for her and her husband a particularly difficult decision and a particularly difficult move. We must now pray that they are sustained in their integrity and continuing ministry. ... There are some awkwardnesses," he said.

The formal conversion of Anita Henderson took place Sunday in the private chapel of Catholic Bishop John Fleming in Ballina, County Mayo, western Ireland. Present for the ceremony were her husband, Church of Ireland Bishop Richard Henderson, and the couple's three children."

LINK (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/17/europe/EU-REL-Ireland-Bishops-Wife.php)