The Faithful
The former archbishop who distinguished himself by practising exorcism (remember a year or so back when one of the Vatican's hierarchic cardinals carefully explained that there is a legitimate place for exorcism in the Church, so don't cluck like that), faith healing (the father of which has just gone to his Maker; those that don't respond are bereft of faith) and then created great perturbation in the Roman Catholic Church by marrying, has, sadly, been defrocked.
This fellow, Emmanuel Milingo (just call him Mister, forget the Archbishop title now) was a Vatican official who lived in Italy during the 1980s and 1990s. His extraordinary behaviour caused no little fuss with the Holy See, when both the late Pope John Paul II, and currently Benedict XVI "personally followed the case of Archbishop Milingo in a spirit of paternal solitude", but the ingrate persisted in his stubborn waywardness.
"The Holy See has therefore been obliged to impose upon him the further penalty of dismissal from the clerical state", a move "most extraordinary". Archbishop - oops, Mr. Milingo, originally from Zambia, had taken it upon himself to ordain bishops to invest them within a breakaway church he threatened to initiate, which would permit priests to marry.
In fact, he did ordain four married men as priests within Married Priests Now.
The Holy See stressed that, although Mr. Milingo is defrocked, he is not released from his vow of chastity that he accepted when becoming a priest. He is now 79, and enjoys a married life with a 43-year-old Korean woman, selected for him by Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean-born evangelist who personally officiates at marriages by the hundreds in much-celebrated mass weddings.
Mr. Milingo remains a thorn in the genital area of the Catholic Church, insisting on criticizing the Vatican over its continued insistence on celibacy. Not, heaven forfend, that there is any connection, but it is interesting to note how deeply affected the current Pope has been by the dreadful revelations of priests preying on vulnerable children for sexual gratification (and temporary release from celibacy).
He is saddened, but stoic in acceptance of the resignation of a bishop criticized for giving cover to the issue of priestly sex abuse. Bishop Donal Murray, the Bishop of Limerick (no, really) "humbly" apologizing for his role in the explosive Irish priestly-predatory scandals fretting the Vatican, emphasizing that his resignation "cannot undo the pain of those who suffered." How noble of him to care so dreadfully much.
Wait, there's other pedophile priests being brought to public shame with the revelations of their sexual assaults on altar boys. See, that old joke wasn't really a joke at all. (Parents of these kids should have been alerted; where there's quips there's truth.) One priest confessed to abusing over one hundred children. Another that he had abused children once a fortnight over a period of 25 years. His was a methodical mind with a maniacal message.
One senior cleric whose name appeared in the report finding church leaders in Dublin guilty of refusing to report abuse to police, complicit with the general church culture of hushing things up has said, poor man, "I am 73 years old and I am obliged to hand in my resignation when I turn 75. However, if it will serve the Church, the people and the victims, I am prepared to go sooner".
Not soon enough, good soul, if one thinks of all the children who would have been spared grief and trauma had he reported their activities, recognized the imperative of his position was to his flock's need not that of his errant colleagues. What's that old saying? "Ve get too soon old und too late shmart"?
This fellow, Emmanuel Milingo (just call him Mister, forget the Archbishop title now) was a Vatican official who lived in Italy during the 1980s and 1990s. His extraordinary behaviour caused no little fuss with the Holy See, when both the late Pope John Paul II, and currently Benedict XVI "personally followed the case of Archbishop Milingo in a spirit of paternal solitude", but the ingrate persisted in his stubborn waywardness.
"The Holy See has therefore been obliged to impose upon him the further penalty of dismissal from the clerical state", a move "most extraordinary". Archbishop - oops, Mr. Milingo, originally from Zambia, had taken it upon himself to ordain bishops to invest them within a breakaway church he threatened to initiate, which would permit priests to marry.
In fact, he did ordain four married men as priests within Married Priests Now.
The Holy See stressed that, although Mr. Milingo is defrocked, he is not released from his vow of chastity that he accepted when becoming a priest. He is now 79, and enjoys a married life with a 43-year-old Korean woman, selected for him by Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean-born evangelist who personally officiates at marriages by the hundreds in much-celebrated mass weddings.
Mr. Milingo remains a thorn in the genital area of the Catholic Church, insisting on criticizing the Vatican over its continued insistence on celibacy. Not, heaven forfend, that there is any connection, but it is interesting to note how deeply affected the current Pope has been by the dreadful revelations of priests preying on vulnerable children for sexual gratification (and temporary release from celibacy).
He is saddened, but stoic in acceptance of the resignation of a bishop criticized for giving cover to the issue of priestly sex abuse. Bishop Donal Murray, the Bishop of Limerick (no, really) "humbly" apologizing for his role in the explosive Irish priestly-predatory scandals fretting the Vatican, emphasizing that his resignation "cannot undo the pain of those who suffered." How noble of him to care so dreadfully much.
Wait, there's other pedophile priests being brought to public shame with the revelations of their sexual assaults on altar boys. See, that old joke wasn't really a joke at all. (Parents of these kids should have been alerted; where there's quips there's truth.) One priest confessed to abusing over one hundred children. Another that he had abused children once a fortnight over a period of 25 years. His was a methodical mind with a maniacal message.
One senior cleric whose name appeared in the report finding church leaders in Dublin guilty of refusing to report abuse to police, complicit with the general church culture of hushing things up has said, poor man, "I am 73 years old and I am obliged to hand in my resignation when I turn 75. However, if it will serve the Church, the people and the victims, I am prepared to go sooner".
Not soon enough, good soul, if one thinks of all the children who would have been spared grief and trauma had he reported their activities, recognized the imperative of his position was to his flock's need not that of his errant colleagues. What's that old saying? "Ve get too soon old und too late shmart"?
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