Thursday, December 17, 2009

Archbishop Milingo Excommunicated

(12-17) 09:00 PST VATICAN CITY, (AP) --

The Vatican moved Thursday to thwart renegade African Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo from ordaining more bishops in defiance of the pope, stripping him of his priestly functions so any future ordinations by him would be invalid.

The Zambian monsignor has long been a problem for Rome. He angered the Vatican when he was married in 2001 to a South Korean woman by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/17/international/i043954S66.DTL#ixzz0Zy9Ld84W

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