Vatican Excommunicates Renegade African Archbishop
Nji Che - All Headline News African Correspondent Vatican City, Rome (AHN) - The Vatican has excommunicated a renegade African archbishop after he ordained four married men as bishops. Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who wanted the Vatican to allow priests to marry, has been ousted from the church. Reuters quotes a Vatican statement as saying, "The Holy See has patiently witnessed the evolution of the events which, unfortunately, have led Archbishop Milingo to a state of irregularity and progressive open break from communion with the Church." The statement adds that, "For this public act, Archbishop Milingo as well as the four ordained men have incurred the excommunication latae sententiae," which forbids excommunicates to receive the sacraments or share in acts of public worship. The former archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, married Maria Sung, a 43-year-old Korean woman in 2001. But he later left his wife and returned to the church. He was sent for rehabilitation in Latin America, from where he left for a convent in the outskirts of Rome. Milingo disappeared in June from a convent in the south of Rome where he lived in partial seclusion over the last four years. He was seen in Washington in July, where he told a news conference his new task was to persuade the Vatican to allow priests to marry.
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