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In 1983, he was asked to resign as the Archbishop of Lusaka because of his "non-conventional" healing ministry, and because he was conducting exorcisms outside of Church authority. He was sent to the Vatican to serve on the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.
He became a supporter of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church and in May 2001, at the age of 71, married Maria Sung, a 43-year-old Korean acupuncturist in New York. This marriage was arranged by Reverend Sun Myung Moon who selected Sung to become Milingo's wife. Father Gabriele Amorth, Rome's chief appointed exorcist, who knew Emmanuel Milingo, believes that he was "brainwashed by the Moon sect." [2]
Following his marriage and statements contradicting the teaching and discipline of the Catholic Church, Milingo was called back to the Church by the Pope John Paul II. Later in the year Milingo annulled the marriage to Sung, and was reconciled to the Church.
In interviews on Italian television in 2002, he said that he had spent a year spent in penitential prayer and meditation in Argentina, at a Capuchin monastery in a place called O'Higgins. [3]
In November, 2003 he made a trip to Africa over the objections of the Catholic bishops there. [4]
Since 2004, he has kept a low profile and media accounts suggest he is living in or near Rome without any official assignment at the Vatican. [5]
On July 12, 2006, Milingo announced at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC he "plans to embark on an independent charismatic ministry to reconcile married priests with the Catholic Faith" as an advocate of the removal of the rule of celibacy for Roman rite priests in the Catholic Church. The sponsor of the press conference was MJT Television. Also speaking was Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, founder of the African American Catholic Congregation and excommunicated priest of the Catholic Church, "Archbishop Milingo is not seeking to defy or divide the (Roman Catholic) Church, but is acting out of deep love for the Church and concern for its future." [6]
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