Tropeano can't receive Communion because she was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic ... ordination has been on advocacy. Ultimately, her biggest desire is still to be a priest ...

She gets out her white alb and her ornately embroidered chasuble, garments worn by Catholic priests around the world. On a calendar on her wall, bold red pen marks that tomorrow is "Ordination day".

Taking holy orders is a commitment for life both to God and to the Catholic Church ... The following is a prayer said at the ordination of a priest: Lord, holy Father, … when you had appointed ...

Two Catholic priests have gone ... He attended the seminary himself and later became a priest, and prosecutors claim Mr Radice did not block his ordination despite knowing about the allegations.