Britain to bring anachronistic, medieval political institution into the 21st century

I suppose this is progress:

Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic.

The 16 countries that have Queen Elizabeth as their monarch agreed to the changes put forward by Prime Minister David Cameron, who had called the rules of succession outdated.

"The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic, this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we’ve all become," Cameron told reporters.

One might argue that pretending that a family of not-particularly noteworthy people are the divinely appointed rulers not only of Britain, but of 15 other countries that used to be part of its empire, is also somewhat outdated. But still, good news for aspiring Catholic princesses of the Commonwealth.