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Jane Via, 65, a retired San Diego county prosecutor, celebrates mass with Dr. Jon Connor at Mary Magdalene Apostle Catholic Community in San Diego on Jan. 20. Via was ordained within the Catholic Womenpriests movement, which flaunts church law forbidding women’s ordination. Photo courtesy Megan O’Neil

(RNS1-mar29) Jane Via, 65, a retired San Diego county prosecutor, celebrates mass with Dr. Jon Connor at Mary Magdalene Apostle Catholic Community in San Diego on Jan. 20. Via was ordained within the Catholic Womenpriests movement, which flaunts church law forbidding women’s ordination. For use with RNS-WOMEN-PRIESTS, transmitted on March 29, 2013, Photo courtesy Megan O’Neil.

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(RNS3-JUL26) Regina Nicolosi (foreground), of Red Wing, Minn., and other women lie face-
down during an ordination ceremony on a cruise ship on the St. Lawrence River on Monday (July
25). They were among four women ordained priests and five women ordained deacons in the
ceremony, which the official Roman Catholic Church considers invalid. See RNS-WOMEN-
PRIESTS, transmitted July 26, 2005. Photo by Mike Greenlar.