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Thursday, October 5, 2006
Excommunicated African bishop says aOowing married
priests would make Catholicism a healthier institution
THE ASSOC/ATED PRESS
WASHINGTON-An
excommunicated African
bishop criticized the Vati
can’s stance on mandator^’
celibacy for priests and said
allowing them to marry
would make the Roman
Catholic Church a healthier
institution.
“The current priest short
age calls for emergency
action,” said Archbishop
Emmanuel Milingo of Zam
bia.
On Tuesday, the Vatican
announced MUingo’s expiil-
sion from the church
because he presided over
the tmauthorized ordina
tion of four married men as
bishops Sunday during cer
emonies at a Washington,
D.C., chinch.
Speaking in both Italian
and English at a news con
ference Wednesday, Milingo
said the Catholic Church
should embrace more than
150,000 married priests
worldwide, in part to ease
the ongoing clergy shortage
and to elevate the sanctity
of marriage.
“I believe that the
Catholic Church as a moth
er cannot be indifferent to
the situation of married
priests who have much suf
fering and are abandoned,”
said Milingo, a 76-year-old
Zambian prelate whose
relationship with the Vati
can has been strained for
years.
In 2001, he was married
to a South Korean acupunc
turist chosen for him by the
Rev. Sun Myung Moon of
the Unification Church, in a
group wedding ceremony in
New York.
Catholic officials also have
accused MUingo of promot
ing African indigenous
beliefs by performing mass
exorcisms and healing cere
monies.
Milingo pointed to sexual
abuse allegations against
celibate priests in the Unit
ed States as an indication
“that something is wrong.”
He was joined Wednesday
by the four bishops he
ordained Simday. They also
have been excommunicated.
“We are well aware of the
sexual misconduct within
the Church. We believe that
marriage is a way to heal
the Church and to make it
whole,” said Rev. George
Augustus Stallings, Jr, a
former priest in the Arch
diocese of Washington, who
left the Roman Catholic
Church in 1989 to foimd the
Afiican American Catholic
Congregation.
“Coiiscience demands that
this seriously unjust law of
celibacy be broken,” said
Rev. Patrick E. Trujillo, who
is affiliated with the Old
Roman Catholic Church in
Newark, New Jersey.
The men support Milin-
go’s so-called • “Married
Priests Now” association,
which is calling for a mar
ried priesthood to become a
normal part of the Catholic
Church- They note that
dozens of married priests
who formerly were Luther
an and Anglican have
served as Roman Catholic
priests over the past 30
years and some clergy in
the Eastern Rites of the
Roman Catholic Church are
also married.
Milingo told reporters
that since Sunday he has
heard from supporters in
India, Portugal and Cana
da. He also said he will not
recognize his excom.munica-
tion and will continue cele
brating Mass and holding
faith healing ceremonies.
Although Vatican authori
ties, including the late Pope
John Paul II, had tried for
years to coax Milingo into
mending his ways, Rome
lost patience with him over
the imauthorized ordina
tions, which threaten papal
authority.
The Vatican issued a
statement Tuesday indicat
ing that Milingo and the
four men effectively excom-
mimicated themselves by
participating in an ordina
tion rite not authorized by
the Vatican in violation of
Chiuch law.
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