What a lovely name! Very tasty!
Posted on 10/12/2006 12:37:57 PM PDT by SmithL
It would seem that Roman Catholics challenging the ban on married priests have found a leader in Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo.
He's defiantly appeared with his bride from a 2001 wedding where hundreds of couples tied the knot. He stood his ground last month after being excommunicated for installing four married men as bishops.
But the 76-year-old prelate from Zambia finds himself more shunned than celebrated, even by his ideological allies.
Many of the established movements pushing for optional celibacy are keeping a cautious distance. Milingo's flamboyant style and unusual associations — including the Rev. Sun Myung Moon — are simply too edgy for those trying to work within the system to alter centuries-old church views on marriage and the priesthood.
It's another example of how head-on defiance of the Vatican — whether the issue is openly gay clergy or ordinations of women — can attract widespread attention but often winds up putting anti-status quo forces on the fringe of the debate.
The "married priest" groups, led by American Catholics, mostly favor a different strategy: seeking to avoid direct clashes with Rome. Instead, they believe time is on their side.
They predict the Vatican may be forced in coming decades to seriously consider married clergy because of pressures including declining vocations and more tolerant views from the next generation of bishops.
"The general feeling is that Milingo is a bit too 'out there' for us. Do we really want to tie our future to a loose cannon?" said Bob Motycka, who served for nearly two decades as a Chicago-area priest before leaving to marry in 1998. He now helps lead a group known as Weorc — the Old English word for "work" — that includes nearly 2,000 men who were ordained priests and later wed.
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What a lovely name! Very tasty!
As an African and a Moonie, Milingo is probably too conservative for them once both parties' mutual kookery is factored out.
He is an ex-archbishop or a
wannabe archbishop
but he is not an a bishop, arch or otherwise.
*Chortle* "Married Archbishop"
Sorry, he's a total nutcase, and probably mentally ill. God help him.
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