A worshipper walks out of St Patrick's Catholic Church in Sydney on March 14, 2013. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard hailed the election of Argentinian Pope Francis as "an occasion of genuinely historic proportions". Australia is home to more than five million Catholics and Gillard, an atheist, said her thoughts were with them after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named to replace Pope Benedict XVI. AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN