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An excommunicated Roman Catholic archbishop continued his defiance of the Vatican Sunday when he ordained two married men as priests.In front of a congregation that included nearly two dozen members of the media at the Trinity Reformed Church, Raymond A. Grosswirth of Rochester, N.Y., and Dominic Riccio, of Newark, were installed by Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel
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