Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo Meets Wife and Leaves Her

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Archbishop Milingo Meets Wife and Leaves Her

Reuters, Aug. 29, 2001
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010829/19/international-pope-milingo-meeting-dc

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ROME (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo met his wife for the first time in more than three weeks on Wednesday and told her he was leaving her to go back to the church, a decision she said she accepted.

"I will do my best to sustain Monsignor Milingo in his mission and in his life until the end," Maria Sung told reporters.
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The Zambian archbishop scandalized the Vatican by marrying the Korean acupuncturist in a mass wedding ceremony organized by Rev Sun Myung Moon in May.

The two met on Wednesday in a hotel a few streets away from the Vatican, where Milingo handed Sung a letter saying he sympathized with her suffering but that he had to return to the Church.

"My commitment to the life of the Church, including celibacy, does not allow me to be married," the 71-year-old archbishop wrote.

The handwritten letter, released by the Vatican while the three-hour meeting was still going on, continued: "The calling of the Church is my primary pledge and it is the right one."

After Milingo left the hotel, besieged by reporters, Sung appeared at a first-floor window to say she would continue to stand by Milingo, even if they were not together.
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Milingo, already in trouble with the Vatican for his colorful healing ceremonies and exorcisms, returned to Rome earlier this month to make amends with the Church, which threatened to excommunicate him if he did not renounce Sung and Moon.
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Members of Moon's Unification Church who have been working with Sung in Italy said the meeting had been very moving and that everyone in the room had cried.

Speaking in her native Korean through an interpreter, she said Milingo had not specifically asked her to forgive him but had said his love for her had not changed and would continue to be that of a brother for a sister.
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Commentary:
Theologically, the Unification Church is a cult of Christianity. It does not represent historical, biblical Christianity. Sun Myung Moon's teachings and practices are heretical, blasphemous, and extremely insulting to true Christians. Hence, Christians who in any way support or otherwise cooperate with Moon and his cult, clearly lack the spiritual discernment to know the difference between orthodoxy and heresy.

(Acts 20:28-30 NIV) Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. {29} I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. {30} Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

(2 Corinthians 11:13-15 NIV) For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. {14} And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. {15} It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

True Christians ought to separate themselves from all who cooperate with the enemies of God:

(Romans 16:17-18 NIV) I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. {18} For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.

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