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by Robert Silverberg

Wonderful story by Silverberg details the selection of a new Pope; you'll enjoy this short story, which won the Nebula award for its year.

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Robot 'Minister' Performs Wedding Ceremony
   In South Korea, your dream wedding can be engineered precisely to your specifications.

I-Fairy Robot Minister Performs Wedding Ceremony
   This is not, as claimed, the first wedding ceremony performed by a robot. However, the wedding video might make roboticists cry.

Texas Couple Married By Computer
   'Do you take this woman as your lawfully wedded wife Y/N?'

Robots Converse, But Should They Count In A Minyan?
   'This is the morning everyone has waited for, when at last the robot cardinal is to be elected Pope...'- Robert Silverberg, 1971.

Minister Wants To Convert Artificial Intelligences To Christianity
   'Getting to his feet he crossed the waiting room to the Padre booth...'- Philip K. Dick, 1969.

BlessU-2 Robot Priest Celebrates 500th Reformation Anniversary
   'at last the robot cardinal is to be elected Pope.' - Robert Silverberg,

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