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19/09/2007

Arch. Milingo's declaration: "The Truth About Korean Catholicism"

15 September 2007

The Truth About Korean Catholicism

It is for deep reasons that Koreans boast of Catholicism as their own domestic Catholicism. They acquired it by reading about it, and one young man went to China to study this Catholicism, and later on was ordained priest. He was accompanied by an old priest from China, but he was the main preacher. It did not take long that the enemies of Catholicism began to persecute till they killed him with his parents and other relatives.

Hence Korea Catholicism is not a missionary Catholicism. It is their Catholicism goes so far as even exaggerate in defending it. It was a public shame in Korea when in the month of June was held a Peace Cup Football Game in Korea. The first classes came from Britain, Argentina, France, Korea, and other nations. Since Peace Cup was from the brain of Rev. Moon, looking for different ways to put people together living in harmony, the reaction of Catholics and other Christians were shameful. They put in the papers all that they had against Rev. Moon, and made demonstrations outside the football stadiums. The Korean people were so furious that they called them “Khe- dockyo” which means “Christian dogs.” Look how far they could push people to such dirty words against them.

They went to Afghanistan to meet the Taliban. They were captured and they lost two of them, who were killed. The others, after many negotiations which cost 38 million dollars, were redeemed; and the Koreans themselves got furious against them. But instead of regretting as they came back, they organized rallies and considered themselves heroes, publishing books on their experience, becoming rich, selling other objects which they had during their imprisonment. They publicly declared to go back to Afghanistan till they convert Muslins to Christianity. I do not want to use the terms they use against Muslims, bringing back the process of religious dialogue once more at the bottom of the line.

That is why the Catholic Church is up in arms against Milingo who has no guns except his faith. I have never attended Mass in Korea. Even now here in Brazil I don’t go to Catholic Church. I celebrate Mass, so I did as well in Korea, in my own private chapel, myself celebrating Mass with a wine with some strange ingredients such as aroma and asparagus, as I traveled. Immediately my wife and my secretary went to buy genuine wine from Verona, Italy. I had nothing to do with the Korean Bishop, nor did I Attempt to conduct a Mass or attend a Mass in a Catholic Church in Korea. How happy I am that in my life many catholic dignitaries have made themselves fools as they told lies about me.

I am very busy with a chain of e-mails which arrive every day. I must answer them every day, otherwise they heap up, and the writers heap up, as the writers write back to find out as to whether I received their e-mail. I need no publicity from the Catholic Church. Shame to the Korean Episcopal Conference. You are not dealing with a fool, if only you knew.

Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo

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12/08/2007

False report about Patriarch of ICAB, Dom Luis Mendes

Thank you, Bishop Marcelo Pires, for correcting a false report. May the Patriarch of ICAB, Dom Luis Mendes, enjoy many years of good health. Blessings,

+Peter Paul Brennan
Married Priests Now!

In a message dated 8/10/2007 7:52:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Bishop Marcelo Pires writes:
Estimados Irmaos em Cristo,

Acabo de falar por telefone com D. Luis Mendes. Ele esta gozando de boa suade e esta muito bem.

Infelizmente esta sendo noticiado pela Internet que nosso Patriarca havia falecido ontem, dia 9 de agosto, aos 84 anos de idade.
A noticia esta na pagina da sua Biografia. Mas, gracas a Deus, que isso foi apenas um alarme falso patrocinado por algum mesquinho de ideias curtas. Talvez algum psicopata maldoso e perigoso.

Aproveitemos a oportunidade e oremos por Dom Luis Mendes - nosso Patriarca.

Em Cristo, pelo Ideal.

+Marcelo Pires

google automatic translation - adapted

Esteem Irmaos in Christ,

I just finished a telephone conversation with D. Luis Mendes. he is enjoying good health and is very well.

Unhappily we were notified on the Internet that our Patriarch had deceased yesterday, day 9 of August, to the 84 years of age. The news was in his biography page.

But, thanks to God, this was only one false alarm sponsored by some person of lowly thoughts. Perhaps some evil and dangerous psychopath.

Let us use to advantage the chance and let us pray for Dom Luis Mendes - our Patriarch.

In Christ, for the Ideal.

+Marcelo Pires

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29/07/2007

The Apostolic Succession of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo

And of Popes Paul VI, Pius XII, Benedict XV, and St. Pius X

PETER PAUL BRENNAN, JOSEPH JEFFREY GOUTHRO, PATRICK ERNESTO TRUJILLO, and GEORGE AUGUSTUS STALLINGS, Archbishops for the Married Priests Now! Catholic Prelature. Consecrated 24 September 2006, Immani Temple on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., by the Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, Emmanuel Milingo.

EMMANUEL MILINGO, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lusaka in Zambia. Consecrated 1 August 1969, Kololo Terrace, Kampala, Uganda, by Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini, assisted by Sergio Pignedoli, Titular Archbishop of Iconium and Secretary of the Evangelization of Peoples, Roman Curia, later Cardinal-Deacon of S. Georgio in Velabro, and by Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kampala, Uganda and later Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Nuova.

GIOVANNI BATTISTA MONTINI, Archbishop of Milano, the future Pope Paul VI. Consecrated 12 December 1954 in Saint Peter`s Basilica, Rome, by Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Bishop of Ostia and of Porto e Santa Rufina, assisted by Giacinto Tredici, Bishop of Brescia, and Domenico Bernareggi, Titular Bishop of Famagosta and Vicar Capitular of Milano.

EUGÈNE TISSERANT, Cardinal and Titular Archbishop of Iconium. Consecrated 25 July 1937 in Saint Peter`s Basilica, Rome, by Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State, the future Pope Pius XII, assisted by Giuseppe Migone, Titular Archbishop of Nicomedia and Charles-Joseph Ruch, Bishop of Strasbourg.

EUGENIO PACELLI, Titular Archbishop of Sardi, the future Pope Pius XII. Consecrated 13 May 1917 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, by His Holiness Pope Benedict XV, assisted by Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Titular Archbishop of Thebes and Agostino Zampini, O.S.A., Titular Bishop of Porphyreon and Sacristan of His Holiness.

GIACOMO DELLA CHIESA, Archbishop of Bologna, the future Pope Benedict XV. Consecrated 22 December 1907 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, by His Holiness Pope Saint Pius X, assisted by Pietro Balestra, Archbishop of Cagliari and Teodoro Valfre di Bonzo, Archbishop of Vercelli.

GIUSEPPE SARTO, Bishop of Mantova (the future Pope St. Pius X). Consecrated 16 November 1884 in the Church of San Apollinare, Rome, by Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi, Vicar of Rome, assisted by Pietro Rota, Titular Archbishop of Thebes and Giovanni Maria Berengo, Archbishop of Udine.

LUCIDO MARIA PAROCCHI, Bishop of Pavia. Consecrated 5 November 1871 in the Church of Trinità dei Monti, Rome, by Costantino Cardinal Patrizi, Bishop of Ostia and of Velletri, assisted by Pietro Villanova Castellacci, Titular Archbishop of Petra and Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia.

COSTANTINO PATRIZI, Titular Archbishop of Philippi. Consecrated 21 December 1828 in the Church of Santa Caterina da Siena, Rome, by Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, assisted by Lorenzo Mattei, Titular Patriarch of Antioch and Paolo Agosto Foscolo, Archbishop of Corfu.

CARLO ODESCALCHI, Cardinal Archbishop of Ferrara. Consecrated 25 May 1823 in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles, Rome, by Giulio Maria Cardinal Della Somaglia, Bishop of Ostia and of Velletri, assisted by Giuseppe Della Porta Rodiani, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople and Lorenzo Mattei, Titular Patriarch of Antioch.

GIULIO MARIA DELLA SOMAGLIA, Titular Patriarch of Antioch. Consecrated 21 December 1788 in the Church of San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome, by Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, C.R.S.P., assisted by Nicola Buschi, Titular Archbishop of Ephesus and Pierluigi Galletti, O.S.B., Titular Bishop of Cyrene.

HYACINTHE-SIGISMOND GERDIL, C.R.S.P., Titular Bishop of Dibon. Consecrated 2 March 1777 in the Church of San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome, by Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna, Vicar of Rome, assisted by Orazio Mattei, Titular Archbishop of Colosse and Francesco Antonio Marcucci, Bishop of Montalto delle Marche and Vicegerent of Rome.

MARCANTONIO COLONNA, Cardinal and Titular Archbishop of Corinth. Consecrated 25 April 1762 in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace of the Quirinal, Rome, by His Holiness Pope Clement XIII, assisted by Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani, Bishop of Sabina and Henry Cardinal Stuart, Duke of York, Bishop of Frascati.

CARLO REZZONICO, Cardinal Bishop of Padova (the future Pope Clement XIII). Consecrated 19 March 1743 in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles, Rome, by His Holiness Pope Benedict XIV, assisted by Giuseppe Cardinal Accaramboni, Bishop of Frascati and Antonio Saverio Cardinal Gentili.

PROSPERO LAMBERTINI, Titular Archbishop of Theodosia (the future Pope Benedict XIV). Consecrated 16 July 1724 in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace of the Quirinal, Rome, by His Holiness Pope Benedict XIII, assisted by Giovanni Francesco Nicolai, O.F.M.Ref., Titular Archbishop of Myra and Nicola Maria Lercari, Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus.

VINCENZO MARIA ORSINI, O.P., Cardinal Archbishop of Manfredonia (the future Pope Benedict XIII). Consecrated 3 February 1675 in the Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus, Rome, by Paluzzo (Paluzzi degli Albertoni) Cardinal Altieri, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, assisted by Stefano Brancaccio, Archbishop-Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania and Costanzo Zani, O.S.B., Bishop of Imola.

PALUZZO (PALUZZI DEGLI ALBERTONI) ALTIERI, Cardinal Bishop of Montefiascone e Corneto. Consecrated 2 May 1666 in the Church of San Silvestro in Capite, Rome, by Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna, assisted by Stefano Ugolini, Titular Archbishop of Corinth and Giovanni Tommaso Pinelli, Bishop of Albenga.

ULDERICO CARPEGNA, Bishop of Gubbio. Consecrated 7 October 1630 in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace of the Quirinal, Rome, by Luigi Cardinal Caetani, assisted by Antonio Ricciulli, Bishop emeritus of Belcastro and Vicegerent of Rome, and Benedetto Landi, Bishop of Fossombrone.

LUIGI CAETANI, Titular Patriarch of Antioch. Consecrated 12 June 1622 in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, by Lodovico Cardinal Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna, assisted by Galeazzo Sanvitale, Archbishop emeritus of Bari and Vulpiano Volpi, Archbishop emeritus of Chieti.

LODOVICO LUDOVISI, Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna. Consecrated 2 May 1621 in the private chapel of his consecrator, near Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Galeazzo Sanvitale, Archbishop emeritus of Bari and Prefect of the Apostolic Palace, assisted by Cosmo de Torres, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis and Ottavio Ridolfi, Bishop of Ariano.

GALEAZZO SANVITALE, Archbishop of Bari. Consecrated 4 April 1604 in the chapel of the Apostolic Sacristy, Rome, by Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P., Bishop of Albano, assisted by Claudio Rangoni, Bishop of Piacenza and Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia, Bishop of Castro di Toscana.

GIROLAMO BERNERIO, O.P., Bishop of Ascoli Piceno. Consecrated 7 September 1586 in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles, Rome, by Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santoro, assisted by Giulio Masetti, Bishop of Reggio Emilia and Ottaviano Paravicini, Bishop of Alessandria.

GIULIO ANTONIO SANTORO, Archbishop of Santa Severina. Consecrated 12 March 1566 in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace by Scipione Cardinal Rebiba, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople, assisted by Annibale Caracciolo, Bishop of Isola and Giacomo de'Giacomelli, Bishop emeritus of Belcastro.

SCIPIONE REBIBA, Titular Bishop of Amicle and Auxiliary of Chieti. Elected Titular Bishop of Amicle and Auxiliary to Giovanni Pietro Cardinal Carafa, Archbishop of Chieti, 16 March 1541. To date, after extensive research, no record of his consecration has been found.

It is usually suggested that Cardinal Rebiba may have been consecrated by Pope Paul IV, Gianpietro Carafa, but no information about Rebiba’s consecration has been found. Paul IV was consecrated in 1506 by Oliviero Carafa, Bishop of Napoli. Oliviero Carafa was consecrated in 1458 by Leone de Simone, Bishop of Nola, who was elected in 1442.

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29/06/2007

Are priests human beings? Have they a right to exist?

I would like to point fingers at some nations; which, in accord with the Vatican State, agreed to deny employment to a priest who opted to marry. The argument is that he has misbehaved. Such a one does not deserve any financial support. A married priest in Pakistan, Peru, Guatemala, and in many states with a concordat with the Vatican State has to be left on the street with the consequence that he cannot go anywhere looking for the defense of his human rights.

Coming back to your nation Italy, as far as the married priests can recall, the punishment and total alienation of a married priest dates back to the times of Mussolini, Croix, Berlusconi, up till now.
I would like to take you further on. When the Vatican State in agreement with any State to condemn married priests as citizens who have misbehaved, does the United Nation have any say on the human rights of married priests? Are priests on the list of human beings in their nations and in the United Nation? But if the Vatican boast of righteousness, how can they close their eyes to the injustices which befall a priest who chooses marry? When one becomes a priest, does the Vatican possess him in aspect of his life, so that the Vatican is immune of any misconduct in treating the priest? The priest cannot call to court the Vatican, but the dioceses are paying for the crimes of married priests, while the Vatican holds on to celibacy. All that the United States Dioceses have to pay for priestly sexual misbehavior should be paid by the Vatican who is holding celibacy attached to priesthood.

Are priests human beings? Have they a right to exist?

Archbishop E. Milingo

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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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28/09/2006

Statement at Press Conference Sept 27, 2006 Imani Temple Washington DC

MarriedPriestsNow - Consecration of Four Married Bishops

Archbishop Milingo’s Press Statement in Response to the Vatican Censure

September 27, 2006 at Imani Temple, Washington DC
We cordially thank the Holy Father for his gracious and caring concern about us and Our College of Bishops and the Prelature for Married Priests Now! It is our intention to be faithful to the Church and to honor and respect the Holy Father. We thank him for his brotherly love and we hope to return the same to him.
We do have a grave concern about the lives of our married priests who have been dismissed from service in the church because they have married. And we wish to speak about that injustice.
The purpose of the Married Priests Now! Personal Prelature is to support the priests who have married and to loudly clamor for their return to full ministry in the Church. We have only one goal and purpose and that is the restoration of the Married Priesthood to the Western Roman Catholic Church. To support married priests I, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, a married Roman Catholic bishop, last July held at a Press Conference in the Press Club of Washington, D.C. to point out the growing crisis in the priesthood. The average age of priests is approximately 74 years of age and the average age of male and female religious is 68 years of age. In twenty years, there will be few priests left. Who is going to provide the sacraments and the Eucharist to the people? Churches are closing at the rate of almost fifty a year in the larger cities in the United States. There is a desperate need for priests now and in the future, but we have almost 25,000 married priests in the US and almost 150,000 world wide who are not being called to service because of a the Medieval church imposed regulation that priests be celibate. The sexual abuse accusations against celibate priests in the United States speaks loudly that something is wrong. And what is wrong is the enforcement of a promise of celibacy on secular clergy. Secular clergy should be married so that they can model what a good family is in the church community and so they can relate to the families they serve. We also pointed out the brutal and unacceptable treatment the Church has imposed on those priests who fell in love and married. That same week a second press conference was held at Imani Temple to accommodate the interest of the international press. Earlier this month we held a convocation with 120 married priests and their wives.
Married Priests Now! is drawing attention to the great need for priests due to the present shortage of priests which is creating a crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. Over 150,000 married priests stand waiting and willing to serve the needs of the church. These men are already trained and experienced in theology and ministry and have many years experience as married men. These are men who have loved their wives, and raised families. They ought to be called back to ministry immediately. The very life of the church is at stake. Without priests, there is no Mass or Eucharist. The Eucharist is the center of the Catholic-Christian experience and faith. No Eucharist, no church.
The church has always had married priests. It was the norm of the church for twelve centuries to have married priests and in the early centuries married bishops and popes. Thirty nine popes were married. In our own day, the Eastern Rites of the Roman Catholic Church have married priests. In the United States, in the last thirty years because of what is known as the Pastoral Provision, there are about 70 married priests who transferred from Anglican and Lutheran churches. The Married Priesthood is already here. We are calling for an extension of this Pastoral Provision for our own married priests.
We celebrate the Married Priests of the Roman Catholic Church. Up to this time the priests who married were punished, penalized and shunned by the Roman Catholic hierarchy. We want the laity to join us and to courageously to call upon the Vatican to remove these unjust penalties and to stop the unchristian retaliation towards married priests. We call on the Holy Father to recall in dignity and honor the priests who have married. Marriage is a sacrament and is a higher calling than celibacy. This is a matter of discernment for the whole Church and the laity must be involved in seeing the need for married priests. We honor and celebrate the Married Priests of the Roman Catholic Church and we will work closely with the Holy Father, the Vatican offices, and other married priest organizations to once again make a married priesthood a normal part of the Church. We celebrate the Married Priesthood. All of our voices need to be one chorus of celebration for the priests who have chosen to find love and marry. They are better priests because of it.
Now we turn our attention to the charges made by the Vatican about the consecration of our four married bishops. When I, as a Roman Catholic Bishop, decided to consecrate four bishops, I meditated and went back to the roots of the apostolic times and reviewed what the apostles had done. They set up spiritual leaders in the church communities by praying and laying hands on them. They did not look for mandates but for the needs of the communities. I have done the same thing. I consecrated these four married men as Roman Catholic bishops in valid apostolic succession. The power and authority of a bishop comes from the very power and authority of his own sacramental consecration. I was consecrated by Pope Paul VI and, equipped with that sacramental power from him, I consecrated four married men in valid apostolic succession. These men are validly ordained Roman Catholic Bishops today and remain so in spite of Rome’s posture of denial of recognition.
The canon cited in the excommunication says I acted without a papal mandate. There have been many times before in Church history when mandates were not required and the current priest shortage calls for emergency action to bring attention and remedy to the problem. The Gospel calls us to do what is right. This may appear to the canon lawyer to be an illicit consecration, but in terms of the Gospel of Jesus Christ it is the right thing to do. These bishops are both valid and licit.
We do not accept this excommunication and lovingly return it to His Holiness, our beloved Pope Benedict XVI, to reconsider it and withdraw it and join us in recalling married priests to service once again. We call upon the bishops of dioceses to bring back the married priests because they have long been needed to do the work of the Church. Lay people need to write to the bishops and to the newspapers to tell them to return married priests to ministry.
We are and continue to be dedicated to the unity of the Church. We are calling back those who have been disowned by the Church and providing them with healing and acceptance. This is great ministry and we act out of care for the Church and for its survival. We will continue with our mission and we ask the laity and the married priests to join us.

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23/09/2006

Married Priests Now: one big family

MarriedPriestsNow: one big family

(foto: P.A. Beltrami)

The Married Priests Now! Convocation has just concluded but not ended. It will be continued with other convocations, newsletters and local gatherings. The focal point of the MPN! convocation were the three Eucharistic Liturgies which called the priests to celebrate the married priesthood. Priests and their wives celebrated their marriages and the priesthood. It was a celebration of love for one another and for the church. For many it was the first time they had celebrated the Eucharist for a long time, and It became an epiphany-event for many as they lifted themselves up in hope and joy to see the current and future church with a restored married priesthood.

The speakers enhanced the convocation with thoughtful and provocative lectures which encouraged the idea of a restored married priesthood. At the opening dinner, Peter Paul Brennan spoke of the need for a married priesthood and set the theme of the conference as a celebration of the married priesthood. Brennan said that the only goal of our Married Priests Now! was the restoration and the recall of married priests to full ministry in the church. He introduced Archbishop Stallings who greeted the assembly and introduced Archbishop Milingo. +Emmanuel Milingo and his wife greeted the participants and told the story of their marriage. Milingo gave an enthusiastic call for the church to recognize its own married priests and for married preists to join together in unity.

On the second day, Dr. Anthony Padovano gave a clear and practical analysis of ministry and the suitable theology of the renewed married priesthood. Dr. Leonard Swidler spoke of the way to restore a married priesthood through a change in the laws because such a change was the only permanent and long lasting method. It must be written into church law.
After lunch, Archbishop Milingo gave a spirited response to the letter of Cardinal Re which threatened him with suspension for continued work with Married Priests Now! Archbishop Milingo said that he is and remains a Roman Catholic archbishop and will always be, but that he will continue to work with married priests because the church has treated them so badly that they need to experience some Christian love and experience. If the institutional church fails to do it, he in good conscience must extend the hand and embrace of love to the married priests. He was followed by Peter Manseau who spoke of the children of married priests from his perspective of growing up in a married priest family which he has written about in his book Vows. Manseau spoke of the sense of loss that is part of the ethos of the family of a married priest and how children experience it. Dr. Sal Trozzo gave few incites into developing communities and future church forms.

In the evening Archbishop Brennan facilitated an open session for priests and their wives to tell their stories and to tell about ministries they have developed. Many of the international married priests told of their ministries and continuing work as married priests. The Independent Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil which has 5,000 married priests was represented by Bishop Edson Luis Campos da Silva, a former Capuchin priest. He was accompanied by Fr. Marcelo Pires. Pietro Ceroni and Dr. Giuseppe Serrone, with his wife Albana, came from Italy. Other international priests came from Peru, Paraguay, Africa, Mexico, and Canada.

The third day began with a special Eucharistic Celebration of Healing in which the priests and bishops extended raised hands to one another to offer healing from the injuries caused by the institutional brutality of the Church and the hierarchy towards married priests. Archbishop Milingo pointed out that the Eucharist is the heart of the priests ministry and that each priest should keep the blessed sacrament reserved in his family home chapel. He spoke of his own devotion to the Eucharist and of its role in the life of the priests, their families and the church.
The next session was an ecumenical sharing of the ministries of the American Clergy Leadership Conference, the Federation of Peace and the role of marriage and family. The convocation was funded by the American Clergy Leadership Conference and by contributions from other churches. Rev. Michael Jenkins, President of ACLC, Dr. Chang Shik Yang, and Rev. Phillip Schanker who told the story of Maria Sung Milingo's encounter with the Vatican.

The final luncheon featured Archbishop Milingo who gave a farewell comments and thanked all the priests who came to share this special celebration of the married priesthood. Brennan read the MPN response to Cardinal Re's letter, gave a few comments and invited the participants to keep in contact through the website and the E-group. Archbishop Stallings introduced Archbishop Patrick Trujillo who gave a keynote talk on the Future of the Married Priesthood and suggested conference resolutions.
The most significant benefit of this convocation was that married-priests celebrated mass together and experience priestly fellowship with their wives and with the assembled community. The exchange of experiences and the meeting of other priests and bishops brought great hope for a real change in church law and policy. Married priests ought to be recalled. The Pastoral Provision given for Lutheran and Episcopal Church ministers needs to be extended to include the Church's own married priests.

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14/09/2006

Married Priests Now! Convocation

September 13, 2006
Married Priests Now! Convocation
Saddle Brook, New Jersey - September 17 – 19, 2006

The married Roman Catholic Archbishop from Zambia, Emmanuel Milingo, is calling married Catholic priests to join his newly founded Married Priests Now! Movement. He is inviting not only married priests but also married men and women who want to be priests to a Celebration of the Married Priesthood. It will be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center, in Saddle Brook, New Jersey on September 17-19, 2006. Each day will begin with a Mass concelebrated by 120 married priests. Married priests and their wives are coming from Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and Canada, and from a dozen states. Archbishop Milingo encourages married priests to stand up for their rights and to make sure the American bishops know they are ready to serve in joy and gladness. Married priests who wish to attend can call Dario Ferrabolli at 1-973-332-2730. This special convocation will center on the single issue of having married priests called back to full ministerial service in the church. Speakers for the convocation are: Anthony Padovano, Leonard Swidler, Peter Manseau and Salvatore Trozzo. A married priesthood was the norm in the Roman Catholic Church for the first twelve centuries. St. Peter and thirty-eight other popes were married men. In several instances sons of married popes became pope also. The Eastern Rites of the Roman Catholic Church have always had married priests. So a married priesthood is nothing new but was actually the norm for the church for more than half of its existence. Archbishop Milingo says, “It is time for the Vatican to reinstate married priests into full and active ministry within the church. The Catholic Church is in a state of crisis because of the current priest shortage. Hundreds of parishes are closing each year and the people are going without the Eucharist.” The current average age of Roman Catholic priests is 74 years, and the average age of monks and nuns is 68. The church knows it has a dim future due to the shortage of priests. The Eucharist is the central teaching of Christianity and of the Roman Church. Without priests, there can be no Eucharist. Without the Eucharist, there is no church. Married Priests Now! is working toward the reconciliation of married priests and wants to identify married men who want to be priests, but who have been deterred by the mandatory celibacy issue. Roman Catholic dioceses are now so short of priests that they are appointing laymen and laywomen as canonical pastors of parishes. While this is a laudable and exciting sign of progress in church structure, it highlights the clear fact that there are not enough priests to be appointed as pastors. These elderly priests who are left are often pastors of two or three parishes. The people need more priests. With 25,000 married priests in the United States and approximately 130,000 world wide, there are plenty of already trained and ordained priests available to bring the Eucharist to the people. It is time to recall the married priest and help resolve the all too evident priest shortage. Peter P. Brennan E-mail: DDamdg@aol.com Phone: 516 485 0616

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09/09/2006

Married Priest Convention - Saddle Brook , New Jersey Sept 17-19, 2006

Archbishop Milingo is inviting married priests and their spouses to a convention of married Catholic priests, He and his wife would like to meet married preists and their wives and invite them to join Married Priests Now! Discussions and speakers will focus on marriage and the priesthood. Hotel, room and meals will be without expense to participants. Travel is not included. Details to follow. For an invitation call 1 973-332-2730 or email: dvferrabolli@verizon.net If you have an alb and a stole bring them; if not, come anyway. Speakers and discussions will focus on marriage and the priesthood."
Do date to submit your and your spouse applications is September 12, 2006
In the words of Archbishop Milingo:
“We are going to share the gifts of our Resurrection with the whole church. We are married priests with a difference. Jesus has told us, “Wake up now and watch with me. Let us go to meet the enemy.” Ours will be holiness acquired from the purification of our souls as we underwent the agonies which took different forms. The Blessed Virgin Mary is in the forefront leading us back to Jesus, the High Priest. Together with her, we rejoice for our double parenthood, human and spiritual, the new symbols of victory of the married priesthood.”

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14/07/2006

Married Priest are longing to serve Through the Church

It is very clear that the Roman Catholic Church has a great need of priests. The Bishops worldwide have brought their concern repeatedly to the Vatican. In addition priests are needed to bring the Eucharist to those Catholic people who do not have a resident priest. The Eucharist is the essence of Catholicism.

Currently on the sideline, there are approximately 150,000 validly ordained priests. But these priests are married. The majority of these priests are ready, and willing to return to the sacred ministry of the altar.

It is our mission to find a way to reconcile these married priests with the Church and to reinstate them in the public sacred ministry, working in every way possible with the Church.

It is evident that the “care of souls” demands a new pastoral provision to make this vision a reality.

No lesser apostle than St. Paul himself demonstrated his theology of the priesthood and the episcopacy when he wrote to Timothy:

“A Bishop must be irreproachable, married only once, temperate, self controlled, decent, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money.” (Timothy 3:2-3)

Married priests are longing to serve God and the people in the Christian community through the church. The new association of married priests called “Married Priests Now!” is calling for those priests who are currently married, and all national and international married priest organizations to unite in an open call to the Roman Catholic Church to reconcile married priests to active service. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo feels that he is an apostle called to bring married priests back to full service in the church due to the current priest shortage and the need to bring the Eucharist to every Catholic.

Archbishop Milingo wants to see a priest in every parish. He feels it is the Will of God to bring priests back as full, vibrant and active ministers of the word and Eucharist.

Married Priests Now! seeks to value the ministry of married priests and reconcile them to public sacred ministry. It is not only a benefit to the church but to all of humanity. The role of the married priests in the family is essential. The family is the nucleus of the church and of society. The priest’s ministry to his family gives him the experience and relationship to see the gospel differently and practically.

The charisma of married priests is needed now. St. Peter was a married priest and so were the other apostles. It is the right of every human person to freely be accepted and given in marriage. This right must be returned to priests in the Latin Roman Communion. It is not only a matter of justice to the priesthood but a matter of the survival of the Church in the future.

For further information about Married Priests Now! please call 202-577-3544.

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