Emmanuel Milingo : Archbishop's controversial wife not pregnant

ROME - The South Korean woman whose marriage to an archbishop scandalized the Vatican announced yesterday she is not pregnant, sparing the Roman Catholic Church further embarrassment.

Maria Sung, 43, who married Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, 71, in a mass wedding May 27 conducted by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, took a pregnancy test at a Rome hospital yesterday morning.

Earlier in the week she suggested she might be pregnant, saying her period was late.

"I'm relieved by the fact that I do not have to care about a child, so I can focus with all my spirit and heart to find my husband," Ms. Sung told reporters at a Rome hotel.

But she said she was also disappointed by the news.

The Zambian archbishop has said in the past that he believes celibacy is poisoning the priesthood and that God's blessings were meant to be given through the family.

"The great hope of Monsignor Milingo and I was that God would have blessed us with a child," she said. "I'm sad he has not done so yet."
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Rev. Phillip Schanker of Rev. Moon's Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Movement said Ms. Sung has decided against involving police in a search for her husband, as had been considered previously.

Rev. Schanker said her intention to file a missing person's report was "feeding the false impression that Maria is interested in fighting or attacking.

"She just wants to see her husband."
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