Married Priests Now!

27/04/2007

Archibishop Milingo's declarations about report of the Brazilian mission

The report of the Brazilian mission has valid comments. Two points remained unclear to the reporter, one is that he thinks that we are not clear on what we are aiming at as a movement. Here it is:

We assure the married priests that whatever suspension, interdict, excommunication never touched their priesthood which is eternal. So they are priests forever, and even as married they should resume their pastoral activity, as one community made up of married priests have done in San Cros, Spain.
That optional celibacy should be the rule, not to connect celibacy with priesthood, and woke people believe that celibacy is the cause of holiness in a priest. This is a lie. Moreover celibacy has done a lot of harm to the church.

Archbishop E. Milingo

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26/04/2007

Archbishop E. Milingo answers to who think that we have exaggerated the number of married priests

I would like to answer those who think that we have exaggerated the number of married priests by putting it at 150,000. As a matter of fact there are more than 150.000 married priests. We are talking of 1,000 years of forced celibacy. Only in U.S.A there are more than 25,000. Just imagine the rest of the continents, like Brazil with 18,000. In some countries they are not even taken into consideration, since they represent a second class community.

Thousands others have joined old Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans and others have become Bishops founding congregations of married priests. These congregations are not known to the Vatican. Moreover, the language of the Vatican is introvert. They give the world their own image, which people today do not accept. They are not interested in married priests. What about those who are priest-pairs of homo-sexuals? These are as well in great numbers. I personally am dealing with a lot of them. I held a long conversation as to how to solve the problem of some of these newly founded priestly congregations in which some choose to remain celibate by name, while they mean to live as priest-homo-sexuals. This is all due to the lack of option for celibacy and married priesthood.

The Vatican is to a great measure ignorant of the great divisions within the Roman Catholic Church caused by celibacy. From myself in the midst of the different categories of priests, who have been over-drunk by celibacy. They have lost their mental balance. The name "Catholic" causes a nausea up to a point of vomiting; "Hypocrisy", they say.

Archbishop E. Milingo

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02/04/2007

MARRIED PRIESTS NOW IN BRAZIL: PROCEEDINGS AND DECLARATION

We, married bishops, priests and deacons of Brazil, ministering in various catholic institutions, together as married priests, originally from the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, members of the Married Priests Movement (MPC), gathered in the First Brazilian Convention of the Movement Married Priests Now, realized in S. Paulo, in the city of Atibaia, form March 23 to 25, 2007, under the spiritual guidance of Emmanuel Milingo, Archbishop Emeritus from Lusaka, Zambia (Africa); with the presence of the clergy of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and his patriarch, Dom Luis Fernando Mendez; the clergy of the Catholic Apostolic Missionary Church of Evangelization; the clergy of the Catholic Orthodox Charismatic Church; the Franciscan Congregation of Useless Servants members; the URI (United religions Initiatives) members and the Family Federation for World Peace.

WE DECLARE THAT:

1. The family is a holy institution created by God;
2. The family is the way for the human beings to continue their lineage, their descendant and the future of humankind;
3. The human sainthood is in the priesthood and in the family, not in the compulsory celibacy;
4. The family is the school of love with distinctive expressions, then it is a human, spiritual, biological and social necessity;
5. The formation of the family is a divine right endowed to all human beings, including the priests and all members of the diverse religious manifestations of the world;
6. The Movement Married Priests Now does not aim to oppose the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, or any other religious denominations, but the defense of the human right to establish consecrated families and the free expression of their religiosity;
7. The spiritual inspiration endowed by Jesus to archbishop Emmanuel Milingo with the authority of Jesus blood, all married priests are forgiven of all mistakes or spiritual injury, coming from the decision to establish their family and to multiply their descendant lineage on Earth; all married priests are free from all punishments coming from the excommunication of any religious institution; all married priests are authorized to celebrate the Holy Eucharist and minister the Holy Sacraments in their families and their communities, according to the spiritual necessity of the Christian people of Brazil.
8. The radical defense of the celibacy (the interdiction to realize a family) imposed by the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church to hundreds of thousands of her members, denies the origin, the purpose and the divine nature of the family institution (Genesis 1, 28), is contrary to the biblical affirmation (Titus1:6; Tm 3), and violate one the most vital and sacred human right. However, the time has arrived for the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church to rethink her position and to restore this God's given human right.

To conclude, we urge all religious believers and all Brazilian to support the Movement Married Priests Now in order to empower the Christian faith and to contribute for the establishment of healthy families centered on God, which are the base for the social peace and the roots for the Kingdom of God in Brazil and in the world.

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02/04/2007

Speech of Archbishop Milingo in Brazil

Your Excellency Dom Mendes Luis Patriarch,

Dear Bishops and Archbishops, my dear brothers, president and your spouses.

This has been unforgettable week. It is more than I can express in my words and

I have to use only thanks you.

The collaboration between the federation of universal peace and the married priests, I have observed that it works.

There have been on both sides appreciation of each other. I pray that this acceptance of one another grows and undoubtedly more and more understanding of between Catholics and the unification church will be arriver at.

My conclusion and the theme of de married priests does not give me much joy.

I have come to know that there are many more married priests here in Brazil than in U.S.A however, one consoling fact is that 75% of them are ready to resume their priestly ministry.

But the doors of the Catholic Church are still closed to them. So they go on wandering into other denominations, or start their denominations.

I have taken this fact up with the married bishops and priests here in Brazil. We have come to there conclusions:

1. This attitude of the Catholic Church, not to listen to the complaints of the people, which come from the celibacy imposed on the priests, has now gone too far. The presence of Eucharistic ministers, however many they may be, can not replace priests in the Catholic Church.

2. The fruit of ecumenism with other churches, which only yesterday they were considered separated brothers, cannot give satisfaction to a priest who has been trained as a Roman Catholic priest.

3. It is with regret and sorrow that we are forced to say what we are going to say. The Catholic Church will conclude that we are saying this with bitterness. Not at all.

We have come to this conclusion that if the Catholic Church does not open doors to married priests, them it is not fair that she goes on baptizing people, whom she will care for the salvation of their souls.

This negligence and stubbornness due to an exaggerated attachment to celibacy, is now clearly showing indifferentism of the Catholic Church

A change of attitude towards this question of optional celibacy is no more a question to be answered tomorrow. The baptized Catholics are waiting for the return of their Roman Catholic priests, whom they have been used to call “father” from their baptismal birth.

We look forward to a good response from the Catholic Church.

Arch. E. Milingo

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