Mike+

The story would make a soap-opera.  It has intrigue
against constituted authority, peculiar mating
rituals, political activism, off beat religion and the
suspense of a high-noon show down. 

What will we name it?  Sun Myung Moon over Washington?
Roman Holiday?  Old Catholics Never Die, They Just
Breakaway.

Charles+

--- Michael Ward <mward@...> wrote:

> This dude has an over-abundance of testosterone!
> 
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> 
> MLW+
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Father Chandler Holder Jones
> [mailto:fatherchad@...] 
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 4:21 PM
> To: jonesstbphl@...; faithandlife@...
> Subject: [FaithandLife] Schism!
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> Monday, September 25, 2006
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> 
> A Liberal Roman Catholic Schism! 
> 
> 
>  <http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/>
> http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/
> 
> Whispers in the Loggia has received definitive
> confirmation that, at
> yesterday's ceremony at Washington's Imani Temple
> (home of the breakaway
> African-American Catholic Congregation), Archbishop
> Emmanuel Milingo
> ordained four prelates of the Old Catholic Church to
> the indisputably valid
> Roman episcopate, passing to them his lineage and,
> with it, the episcopal
> lineage of Pope Paul VI, who ordained Milingo as
> archbishop of Lusaka in
> 1969. An Associated Press story yesterday had caused
> confusion by referring
> to the ceremony as an "installation," particularly
> as the ordinands had
> previously claimed episcopal orders through other
> channels.
> 
> While the Holy See last week raised the specter of
> "canonical suspension" on
> the renegade Zambian prelate with a deadline of 15
> October, yesterday's
> action places Milingo under an automatic latae
> sententiae excommunication
> reserved to the Holy See under the provisions of
> canon 1382. In the west,
> the break is comparable only to the events of June
> 1988, when the
> traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained
> four bishops of his own,
> incurring the excommunication of all involved and
> creating the great schism
> of the 20th century.
> 
> Milingo and his four prelates -- the "Council of
> Bishops" of the "Married
> Priests Now!" movement -- are meeting today in
> Washington to discuss the
> division of their responsibilities. Expect a
> statement from the Holy See
> quickly.
> _______________________________________
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>
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_re_us/archbishop_marriage_2>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_re_us/archbishop_marriage_2
> 
> An African archbishop who wants to make celibacy
> optional for priests
> installed four married men Sunday as Roman Catholic
> bishops. The Archdiocese
> of Washington did not recognize the installations.
> "This means nothing
> within the church," spokeswoman Susan Gibbs said.
> Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo - whose marriage to a
> woman chosen by the Rev.
> Sun Myung Moon scandalized the Roman Catholic Church
> - performed the
> ceremonies at a Capitol Hill church. Installed were
> the Rev. George Augustus
> Stallings, Jr., of Washington, Peter Paul Brennan,
> of New York, Patrick
> Trujillo, of Newark, N.J., and Joseph Gouthro, of
> Las Vegas.
> The four men claim affiliation to the breakaway
> Synod of Old Catholic
> Churches.
> "We are not only validly ordained Catholic bishops,
> but we are ordained
> Roman Catholic bishops," Stallings said. Milingo has
> said that the head of
> the Vatican Congregation for Bishops has demanded he
> send a letter of
> repentance by Oct. 15 to Pope Benedict XVI or face
> "canonical suspension."
> The Vatican said Milingo violated church law when he
> created "the so-called
> 'Married Priests Now' association," and when he
> previously celebrated Mass
> with married clergy. A "canonical suspension" would
> bar Milingo from
> ordaining priests, leading Mass and performing other
> sacraments, according
> to the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit writer and expert
> on the church. Milingo,
> 76, has had a troubled relationship with the Vatican
> for years.
> Before his marriage, Catholic officials accused him
> of promoting African
> indigenous beliefs by performing mass exorcisms and
> healing ceremonies. Then
> in 2001, the archbishop married Maria Sung, a South
> Korean acupuncturist
> Moon chose for him, at a mass wedding in New York.
> Four months later, Milingo renounced the union,
> after a personal appeal from
> Pope John Paul II. But Milingo said he grew
> frustrated by restrictions on
> his ministry, so he fled Rome. In July, he
> reappeared in the United States
> to announce his new organization. He says he now
> lives with his wife in the
> Washington, D.C., area.
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