On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the Catholic Church's ban on women deacons and priests.
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At Washington's Red Mass, the themes of civility, humility and fortitude come "at a time that has become remarkably, historically and particularly uncivil at the high court," writes NCR's James V.