I wonder how many other seekers of "true Apostolic succession"  will be 
lining up at his door.  He probably won't starve to death.  Regards.  X 
KnoxDuncan@...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charles scott" <crscottblu@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] Schism!


>
> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> MLW+
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Father Chandler Holder Jones
>> [mailto:fatherchad@...]
>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 4:21 PM
>> To: jonesstbphl@...; faithandlife@...
>> Subject: [FaithandLife] Schism!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Monday, September 25, 2006
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> _______________________________________
>>
>>
>>
> <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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