A Fruit of the Council: Defrocked Archbishop Milingo Turned 90
Milingo became quickly famous as a “healer” and “exorcist” causing considerable brouhaha, so he was moved to the Vatican, where John Paul II told him, “Your Excellency be prudent but not too much.”
He was also a Hip-hop chanter and participated in 1997 at the Italian Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Gubudu gubudu” (video).
When he was 71, Milingo married the 43-year-old Korean Maria Sung in a mass marriage of the Moon sect. He said later,
“For 43 years as a celibate priest I only knew God as a male. Now, through my union with Maria, I have come to see the other side of God's heart, which is female.” Christ and Saint Paul were not married.
After his suspension he started campaigning for married priests and “consecrated” six married bishops. He was laicised in December 2009.
Now, Milingo is back in Lusaka on a Vatican pension granted to him by Benedict XVI.
Picture: Emanuel Milingo © wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsJshjsorjct
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