Archbishop Milingo: "Married Priesthood Now"

Remember Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the bishop who attempted to marry a South Korean acupuncturist in 2001 (in a "moonie" ceremony, as I recall)...Anyway, he's back at it again:

Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the charismatic cleric whose "non-conventional" healing ministry, public marriage and call for an end to mandatory celibacy led to controversy with the Vatican, plans to embark on an independent charismatic ministry to reconcile married priests with the Catholic Faith. "There is no more important healing than the reconciliation of 150,000 married priests with the 'Mother Church,' and the healing of a Church in crisis through renewing marriage and family," notes the 76-year-old archbishop.

First, 150,000 "priests" who are "married" seems like an extraordinarily high number. Secondly, whatever the number, it demonstrates that those who took a vow or a promise were, after having been ordained, unable or unwilling to fulfill that promise or vow. One can only wonder how well the "married priest" keeps his marital vows.

"Archbishop Milingo is not seeking to defy or divide the (Roman Catholic) Church, but is acting out of deep love for the Church and concern for its future," notes Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, founder of the African American Catholic Congregation.

Now there, in George Stallings, we find a stalwart defender of the faith (sarcasm)....For those who do not know of him, he is a former Catholic priest who quit the priesthood and established his own pseudo-Catholic church called Imani Temple.

The African American Catholic Congregation ("Imani Temple") was founded in July 1989 by Roman Catholic Fr. George A. Stallings, b. 1948, a noted black liturgist and pastor. He originally started the AACC as an attempt at a "new rite" within the Roman Catholic Church. In December 1989, he formally broke with the Roman Catholic Church and started to seek consecration within the Independent-Movement. At this time, the average Sunday Mass attendance at Imani Temple # 1, Washington, D.C., was about 800. It is said that attendance at Imani Temple declined somewhat after Fr. Stallings announced the break from Rome. (Source.)

So many people want to fix the Church, without the Church...so many people wish to make themselves pope without the Church....

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HT to Dennis for the link!