African Archbishop Shocks Vatican With Pro-Marriage Press Conference
Josephine Roque - All Headline News Staff Writer Vatican City (AHN) - The African archbishop who rocked the Catholic Church with a 'Moonie' marriage, is at it again. He held a news conference calling on the Catholic Church to allow priests to marry. Emmanuel Milingo has lived the past four years outside Rome upon returning to the church. Archbishop Milingo disappeared from his Italian retreat last month only to show up in Washington. He told media it was time for the Church to "reconcile with married priests." He went on to urge priests once punished for marrying to "come out of their Catholic prisons and be reinstated, taking once more their pastoral responsibility among the married priests." A former archbishop of Lusaka, Milingo shocked the Vatican when he married 43-year-old South Korean acupuncturist Maria Sung in a mass wedding by Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in 2001. He then abandoned his marriage four months later with the desire to go back to the church. He then spent a year of rehabilitation in South America, then transferred to a convent near Rome. Archbishop Milingo told the Associated Press in a telephone interview that he wanted to change the Church not leave it. He explained that priests who had fallen in love "have been driven to become almost mental cases."
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