Leave it to the Novus Ordo Church to turn a victory into a defeat.
Members of a retreat centre convert to Catholicism: Reason to cheer. Pastor of said ecumenical retreat centre gets to be ordained at his reception into the Catholic Church: Reason to despair.
Also in the audience was a uniformed delegation from the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
The Globetrotters performed for Pope Pius XII in 1951, St John XXIII in 1959 and Pope Paul VI in 1968. They met St John Paul II a number of times and even awarded him “honorary player” in 2000.