Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a Zambian Roman Catholic archbishop. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ...

In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka.^[1] His Holiness Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), (Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ... The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka (Archidioecesis Lusakensis) in Zambia covers an area of 64,000 km² (24,720 mi²). As of 2004, of the 3. ... Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. ...

In 1983, he was asked to step down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices unapproved by Church authorities.^[2] Saint Francis exorcised demons in Arezzo, fresco of Giotto Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus, from Greek exorkizein - to adjure) is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a person or place of which they have possessed (taken control of). ...

In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, despite the prohibition on marriage for ordained priests. Sun Myung Moon in 2005. ... The Unification Church is a new religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s. ... Catholic deacon candidates prostrate before the altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles during a 2004 diaconate ordination liturgy Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, and Independent Catholic churches includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon. ...

On 24 September 2006 Milingo ordained four men as bishops without a papal mandate. All four men were married at the time of their ordination. For this act the Holy See declared Milingo automatically excommunicated.^[3] Excommunication, which forbids someone to receive the sacraments or share in acts of public worship, is usually "ferendae sententiae", i.e. imposed as medicinal punishment by a competent Church authority. But some offences, including heresy, schism, laying violent hands on the Pope and procuring abortion, trigger automatic, or "latae sententiae", excommunication.^[4] In Roman Catholic sacramental theology, Holy Orders is one of three sacraments that cannot be repeated. Accordingly, Milingo remains a bishop, with a bishop's sacramental powers, but is solemnly forbidden to exercise them. Milingo, however, challenges this interpretation of the Canones. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This article is about the sacrament. ... Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. ... In Christian belief and practice, a sacrament is a rite that mediates divine grace, constituting a sacred mystery. ... Catholic deacon candidates prostrate before the altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles during a 2004 diaconate ordination liturgy Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, and Independent Catholic churches includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon. ... This article is about a title or office in religious bodies. ...

On December 11, 2006, in Washington the Archbishop ordained four married priests as bishops. He then also established the Married Priests Now organisation as a personal prelature to care for and to reintegrate in the church the 100,000 to 150,000 married priests. A prelate is a member of the clergy having a special canonical jurisdiction over a territory or a group of people; usually, a prelate is a bishop. ...

Education and ordination

Milingo was educated in St. Mary's Presbyterial school in Chipata and attended the Kasina Seminary and Kachebere Seminary. He was ordained a priest in 1958, and was the parish priest in Chipata from 1963 to 1966, when he founded the Zambia Helpers Society. He was the secretary of Mass Media at the Zambia Episcopal Conference from 1966 to 1969, when he founded the Daughters of the Redeemer. Pope Paul VI consecrated him as bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. He served there from 1969 to 1983. Chipata, population 75,000, is the capital of the Eastern Province of Zambia. ...

The Ministry of Healing and His Resignation

In the 1970s Milingo discovered that he had the gift of healing through prayer. This soon attracted huge crowds. European missionaries, especially some Jesuit priests of Polish origin, criticized him for this, and also for using elements of traditional African religion in his healing sessions. He was called to the Vatican for an investigation, to which he committed. When under investigation in the Vatican he got the the support of the charismatic movement in the Roman Catholic Church. As a consequence he was heard by Pope John Paul II and was given permission to continue his healing sessions in Italy, where he became quite a celebrity and got support of large groups of young people. He was also given a papal assignment to serve as Head of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples. (video interview). The charismatic movement began with the adoption of certain beliefs typical of those held by Pentecostal Christians —specifically what are known as the biblical charisms of Christianity: speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc. ...

In 1983, he was asked to resign as the Archbishop of Lusaka, as his return to Zambia could easily led to a split in the Roman Catholic Church, because of his enormous popularity. Many Zambian Catholics interpreted his call to Rome as an act of racialism and as a lack of understanding and acceptance of African spirituality.

Criticism of the Church

On 17 March 1992 he gave an "imprimatur" to the book On the Eucharist, a Divine Appeal, a collection of messages said to have been given by Jesus Christ in an apparition and written from September 8, 1987 to 1991 by Sr. Anna Ali, DOJS. These messages were a traditional call to conversion and Eucharistic devotion, as well as expressing sadness over the current state of the Catholic priesthood. Milingo was in the 1990s still counted among the "far-right" critics of the institutional Church.^{[citation needed]} During this time, he became well-known in traditionalist and sedevacantist circles for a speech he gave at the "Fatima 2000" International Conference on World Peace, held November 18–23, 1996, in which he charged that high-ranking members of the Church hierarchy were "followers of Satan" or otherwise enabled evil: March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in leap years). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Generally, an apparition is act or instance of appearing. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In general, conversion is the transformation of one thing into another. ... For other uses, see Eucharist (disambiguation). ... A 1950s Low Mass in Bohermeen, Ireland in the presence of a bishop and several priests and with the altar arranged for Eucharistic devotions to follow A traditionalist Catholic is a Roman Catholic who believes that there should be a restoration of the liturgical forms, public and private devotions, and... Sede vacante coat of arms, used when there is no reigning pope. ... Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Fatima (pron. ...

"The devil in the Catholic Church is so protected now that he is like an animal protected by the government; put on a game preserve that outlaws anyone, especially hunters, from trying to capture or kill it. The devil within the Church today is actually protected by certain Church authorities from the official devil-hunter in the Church — the exorcist. … To the question, 'Are there men of the Curia who are followers of Satan?' Milingo responded, 'Certainly there are priests and bishops. I stop at this level of ecclesiastical hierarchy because I am an archbishop, higher than this I cannot go.' Milingo cited papal statements to back up his charges. 'Paul VI said that the smoke of Satan had entered into the Vatican'"^[5] (Reported in The New American, 3 March 1997).

He also said that the Church tolerated homosexuality and disregard of the obligation of clerical celibacy: The Devil is a title given to the supernatural entity, who, in Christianity, Islam, and other religions, is a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. ... The Roman Curia — usually called the Vatican — is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See, coordinating and providing the necessary organisation for the correct functioning of the Catholic Church and the achievement of its goals. ... The John Birch Society (JBS) is an ultraconservative organization that was founded in 1958 to fight the threat of Communism in the United States as well as restoring the constitutional principles the United States was founded on in its original American government. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Clerical celibacy is the practice of various religious traditions in which clergy, monastics and those in religious orders (female or male) adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage and sexual relationships, including masturbation and impure thoughts (such as sexual visualisation and fantasies). ...

Secret affairs and marriages, illegitimate children, rampant homosexuality, and illicit sex have riddled the priesthood to the extent that the UN Commission on Human Rights has investigated the church for sexual abuse…"^[6]

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Marriage

Milingo had expressed sympathy for the movement of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church, when serving in Zambia. In May 2001 Milingo said that the Roman Catholic Church should provide priests dispensation from the obligation of celibacy and should readmit married priests to the priestly ministry. He said that he should set the example. At the age of 71, he and Maria Sung, a 43-year-old Korean acupuncturist, married in a Blessing ceremony in New York. Following his marriage the Archbishop was called to the Vatican by Pope John Paul II, where he had to promise not to see his wife anymore, and to move to a Capuchin monastery. Sun Myung Moon in 2005. ... The Unification Church is a new religious movement started by Sun Myung Moon in Korea in the 1940s. ... In the Unification Church the Blessing is considered the most important and central ceremony in a person’s spiritual life. ... NY redirects here. ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), (Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born   [] (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as Pope of the Catholic...

In interviews on Italian television in 2002, he said that he had spent a year in penitential prayer and meditation in Argentina, at a Capuchin monastery in a place called O'Higgins.^[7] In November, 2003, he made a trip to Africa over the objections of the Catholic bishops there.^[8] In 2004 and 2005, he kept a low profile and media accounts suggested that he was living in or near Rome without any official assignment at the Vatican.^[9] Penance (via Old French penance from the Latin Poenitentia, the same root as penitence, which in English means repentance, the desire to be forgiven, see contrition; in many languages only one single word is derived) is, strictly, repentance of sins as well as the actual name of the Catholic Sacrament... Mary Magdalene in prayer. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (OFM Cap) is an order of friars in the Roman Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans. ... Monastery of St. ... For the Chilean revolutionary leader, see Bernardo OHiggins. ...

Episcopal Ordinations of Married Priests

On July 12, 2006, Milingo announced at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. his "plans to embark on an independent charismatic ministry to reconcile married priests with the Catholic Faith" as an advocate of the removal of the rule of celibacy for Latin Rite priests in the Catholic Church; the group was called Married Priests Now!.^[10] The organisation was to be a personal prelature, like Opus Dei.^{[citation needed]} The sponsor of the press conference was MJT Television. Also speaking was Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Jr, a well-known excommunicated priest, who founded his own "Imani Temple African American Catholic Congregation", which the Roman Catholic Church considers schismatic and heretical. Stallings nevertheless said that "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."^[11] Milingo also announced that he wants to bring the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon closer to the Vatican. He announced he wanted them to cooperate in bringing religion to the world. In August 2006, Archbishop Milingo rejoined his wife, Maria Sung, and they live together as a married couple. July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The National Press Club is an association of journalists based in Washington, DC. It is well-known for its gatherings with invited speakers, including many presidential candidates and other influential politicians. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D... Latin Rite, in the singular and accompanied, in English, by the definite article (the Latin Rite), designates the particular Church, within the Catholic Church, which developed in western Europe and northern Africa, when Latin was the language of education and culture, and so also of the liturgy. ... Married Priests Now! (MPN) is an advocacy group headed by Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, a Zambian prelate. ... Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, Opus Dei is Latin for The Work of God, and the organization is sometimes known simply as the Work.[1][2] Opus Dei emphasizes the Catholic belief that... George Augustus Stallings Jr. ... The word schism (IPA: or ), from the Greek σχίσμα, skhísma (from σχίζω, skhízō, to split), means a division or a split, usually in an organization or a movement. ... Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the Catholic or Orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. ... Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the founder of the Unification Church (established on May 1, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea). ...

On September 24, 2006, Milingo consecrated four married men as bishops.^[12] Each of the four claimed already to be a bishop. Stallings was one of the four. The others were Bishop Peter Paul Brennan of the "African Orthodox Church" and the "Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas", who according to one Web site was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the "Old Catholic Church in America"; and Bishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the "Catholic Apostolic Church International".^[13] September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... To consecrate an inanimate object is to dedicate it in a ritual to a special purpose, usually religious. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Two days later, on 26 September 2006 the Holy See's press office announced^[14] that both Archbishop Milingo and the four men involved in the episcopal consecration ceremony had automatically incurred excommunication in accordance with canon 1382 of the current Code of Canon Law.^[15] Since, as canon 1405^[16] states, only the Pope himself has jurisdiction in an ecclesiastical penal case against a bishop, this declaration did not signify that Archbishop Milingo was subject to the consequences (indicated in canon 1331 §2) of a judicially imposed or declared excommunication. The declaration of the Holy See ("By this public act, both Archbishop Milingo and the four ordinands have incurred the latae sententiae excommunication that is indicated in Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law.") instead indicated that, since Milingo's action was a public act, anyone could see that he had incurred automatic excommunication, with the equally automatic consequences indicated in canon 1331 §1. It also stated that "the Church does not recognize and does not intend in the future to recognize these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination." September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Latae sententiae is a Latin term from the Canon Law of the Catholic Church meaning by the law itself. When something is Latae Sententiae, an action causes the law to be invoked. ... Latae sententiae is a Latin term from the Canon Law of the Catholic Church meaning by the law itself. When something is Latae Sententiae, an action causes the law to be invoked. ...

On the other hand, under the principle of "ex opere operato" (by virtue of the act which is carried out) this episcopal ordination of married priests is valid, as such an ordination is the canonnical prerogative of an Archbishop, with or without the consent of the Vatican. The authority of a Bishop is by divine right.

In the meantime the Vatican has reacted on Milingo's initiative by organizing in November 2006 a high level conference in the Vatican to discuss possibilities for dispensation for priests wishing to marry and for readmission of clergy who had married in recent years.

Music and Books published

Milingo recorded two music albums. The first was entitled "Gubudu Gubudu" produced by GENEPI musical edition of Aldo Azzaro and Laura Scoccia, with a subsequent single of the same name, produced in 1995.^[17] His second album was generally dedicated to the battle against evil and was produced three years later, following the relative success of the first.^[18]

In 1998 he co-produced, with the Italian cartoonist Mario Verger, an autobiographic cartoon set to music by Lucio Dalla, with the arrangements of Ron and Aldo Azzaro, entitled Milingo the Spirit of Africa. Lucio Dalla (born March 4, 1943 in Bologna) is an Italian singer-songwriter. ...

In 2007 is the new music album "Milingo Experience" is on the web. It is produced by Aldo Azzaro for GENEPI musical edition (http://www.milingo.info).

Milingo wrote a good number of books about his ministry of healing and his exorcism. They contain details about "the world in between" human beings and the divine, a world of evil and of good spiritual beings. Titles: "The Flower Garden of Jesus the Redeemer", "Demarcations", "Precautions in the Ministry of Deliverance", "Make-Joni" (illustrated by Arnold Chimfwembe) (1972, Lusaka: Neczam), "The World in Between: Christian Healing and the Struggle for Spiritual Survival" (1984, London: C Hurst; Maryknoll, N Y: Orbis Books), "Le mie preghiere non sono ascoltate" (1987), "Guaritore d'anime: la mia storia, la mia fede" (con Renzo Allegri) (Milano: Mondadori, 1997).

Prof. Gerrie ter Haar (ISS, The Hague, The Netherlands) published a full length study about Milingo, titled "Spirit of Africa: The Healing Ministry of Archbishop Milingo of Zambia", London: Hurst, 1992. This is the published version of her Ph.D. Thesis from Utrecht University, The Netherlands

References

External links

• Official Web Site
• Milingo Watch blog
• Recent videotaped interview with Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo (high-speed connection required) October 2006.
• Recent online interview with Archbishop George Stallings, Jr. speaking about the Milingo ordeal.
• News Release, July 12, 2006
• Bishop seeks to change no-marriage rule, AP, Wednesday, July 12, 2006
• Milingo Accuses Catholics of Illicit Sex, Homosexuality - The Post (Lusaka), August 8, 2001
• Rome Exorcist Says Archbishop Milingo "Brainwashed" - Il Messaggero, May 27, 2001.
• Milingo in the Roman Catholic hierarchy- Place of Archbishop Milingo in the Roman Catholic hierarchy
• Return of the prodigal son - Guardian Unlimited, October 2, 2002.
• Milingo in the Dictionary of African Christian Biography
• Notification Regarding Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, July 18, 2001 (note the excommunication referenced in this notice was not imposed)