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Former nuns Love (left) and Dunn claim they were called by the Holy Spirit to serve at relatively young ages (2nd grade and age 20, respectively), but the established church was not capable of accepting ​— ​or even recognizing ​— ​their calling.

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Suzanne Dunn (left) and Jeannette Love

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Reverend Suzanne Dunn (left) consecrates the Holy Eucharist at Palm Sunday service as Reverend Love looks on. They invite members of the congregation to join them at the altar in saying the prayer converting the wafer and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

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Suzanne Dunn

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Suzanne Dunn

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Jeannette Love

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As a matter of faith, the Vatican insists women cannot be ordained, in part, because Jesus Christ selected only men to serve as his apostles. Reverends Love and Dunn counter that Mary of Magdala (above, by artist Guido Reni, 1634) was described in scripture as “the apostle to the apostles.” Ironically, it would be on Mary of Magdala’s feast day that the Vatican announced the excommunication of the first seven women to be ordained as priests.

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Dunn and Love cut their teeth theologically when Pope John XXIII (above) was ushering in the groundbreaking reforms of Vatican II 49 years ago. Since then, they contend, successive popes have beaten a steady retreat from Vatican II. “You can’t be empowered and then disempower yourself,” Dunn said.

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Lifelong Roman Catholics Suzanne Dunn (left) and Jeannette Love did what the Vatican claims is impossible: They were ordained as women priests. They insist they’re working within the church to make it more inclusive. But the Vatican insists they’ve been thrown out.

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John Paget Figg-Hoblyn

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Where Heaven Meets Hell

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The Interrupters

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The new professional teaching kitchen at Carpinteria High School’s Culinary Arts Institute.

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Monroe Elementary fourth graders sell reusable grocery bags to community.

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Westmont seniors present their artwork.

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Nathan Fletcher

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THE WAY IS CLEAR: A Caltrans official photographed Mayor Helene Schneider sitting shotgun in a city staffer’s Ford Cobra as they cruised the new Cacique Street undercrossing below Highway 101.

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UCSB community distributes re-usable bags to students on campus.

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