Ordained by the Daily Journal.

The Daily Journal is the California legal newspaper of record.  Like a lot of mainstream newspapers it can't help but inject its ideology into cutesy profiles, like this one:

Deputy DA is Woman Priest


By Pat Broderick

SAN DIEGO - Jane Via, garbed in vivid red and white vestments, stood before her congregation in San Diego on a recent Sunday, preaching about the importance of inclusiveness and praying for courage to challenge the Roman Catholic Church. Via wasn't there as a layperson assisting the priest. She is the priest, at least according to the international women's priest movement, earning her and others like her the wrath of the Vatican, which forbids women's ordination.

And:

Via then became one of the first U.S.-born citizens to be ordained a deacon in the women priest movement, the step that comes before ordination as a priest. She was ordained in 2006 in Switzerland. Now Via is the primary pastor of a 150-member congregation that includes two other priests - Stephens and Nancy Corran.  "She probably has a larger community than anyone else in the country," said Suzanne Thiel, the USA-West administrator for Roman Catholic Womenpriests, an
initiative that began in Germany in 2002 with the ordination of seven women. In the United States, the initiative now has 48 priests, five bishops, who handle administrative duties, and 10 deacons, according to Thiel.

You have to wonder how the article would have read if Via had declared herself to be the District Attorney of Orange County because she claimed to have been "apponted" by some Swiss magistrate to that position.
She'd probably be viewed as a "loon."
 
But, hey, if she "feels" like she's a Catholic priest, who cares what the Catholic Church says.