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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2013,file photo, Kate Kelly, center, with a group of about 200 feminist women are denied entrance to an all-male meeting of Mormon priesthood during the Mormon church conference, in Salt Lake City. More than 100,000 Latter-day Saints are expected in Salt Lake City this weekend for the church's biannual general conference. A Mormon's women group pushing the church to allow women in the priesthood plans to demonstrate outside an all-male meeting Saturday. The church has asked them to reconsider, and barred media from going on church property during the demonstration. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2013, file photo, shows people walking pass the Salt Lake Temple on the way to the Conference Center during opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference, in Salt Lake City. More than 100,000 Latter-day Saints are expected in Salt Lake City this weekend for the church's biannual general conference. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give carefully crafted speeches aimed at providing members with guidance and inspiration in five sessions that span Saturday and Sunday. They also make announcements about church statistics, new temples or initiatives. In addition to those filling up the 21,000-seat conference center during the sessions, thousands more listen or watch around the world in 95 languages on television, radio, satellite and Internet broadcasts. A Mormon's women group pushing the church to allow women in the priesthood plans to demonstrate outside an all-male meeting Saturday. The church has asked them to reconsider, and barred media from going on church property during the demonstration. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2013,file photo, Kate Kelly, center, with a group of about 200 feminist women are denied entrance to an all-male meeting of Mormon priesthood during the Mormon church conference, in Salt Lake City. More than 100,000 Latter-day Saints are expected in Salt Lake City this weekend for the church's biannual general conference. A Mormon's women group pushing the church to allow women in the priesthood plans to demonstrate outside an all-male meeting Saturday. The church has asked them to reconsider, and barred media from going on church property during the demonstration. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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FILE - This April 6, 2013, file photo, shows the Salt Lake Temple as people walk to the Conference Center before the start of the 183rd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Salt Lake City. More than 100,000 Latter-day Saints are expected in Salt Lake City this weekend for the church's biannual general conference. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give carefully crafted speeches aimed at providing members with guidance and inspiration in five sessions that span Saturday and Sunday. They also make announcements about church statistics, new temples or initiatives. In addition to those filling up the 21,000-seat conference center during the sessions, thousands more listen or watch around the world in 95 languages on television, radio, satellite and Internet broadcasts. A Mormon's women group pushing the church to allow women in the priesthood plans to demonstrate outside an all-male meeting Saturday. The church has asked them to reconsider, and barred media from going on church property during the demonstration. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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CORRECTS IDENTIFICATION FORM REV. JAMES MASON TO REV PAUL KING - Rev. Paul King conducts Mass at St. Lambert's Catholic Church in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The Roman Catholic Church, facing a decline in priests and changes in population, will merge several rural parishes in eastern South Dakota while creating a new one on the south side of Sioux Falls. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)

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Rev James Mason, right, and Rev Paul King, left, conduct Mass at St. Lambert's Catholic Church in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The Roman Catholic Church, facing a decline in priests and changes in population, will merge several rural parishes in eastern South Dakota while creating a new one on the south side of Sioux Falls. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)