Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:03 AM
Subject: testi recenti dichiarazioni di Mons. Milingo - A. E.
Milingo' declarationsand letters
Cari Stefania ed Ernesto,
vi invio i links a dei testi ufficiali che per l'argomento
potrebero essere utili al dialogo. Un testo in particolare è rivolto
ai preti sposati italiani...
Un caro saluto
giuseppe serrone
My Dear Fellow Married Priests in Italy (anche in allegato)
Comunicazione testi e dichiarazioni di Mons. Milingo
Arch. Milingo's Declaration. "Married Priests Now"
Speech of 11 September 2007 in
Brazil...
Married Priests: "We are restoring to them their human
dignity and their priesthood". (continue)
Arch. Milingo's speech of 11 September 2007 in Brazil
links in website
link
http://marriedpriestsnow.splinder.com/post/13920388/Married+Priests%3A+%22We+are+resto
Arch. Milingo's declaration: "The Truth About Korean
Catholicism"
It is for deep reasons that Koreans boast of
Catholicism as their own domestic Catholicism. They acquired it by
reading about it, and one young man went to China to study this
Catholicism, and later on was ordained priest. He was accompanied by
an old priest from China, but he was the main preacher. It did not
take long that the enemies of Catholicism began to persecute till
they killed him with his parents and other relatives.... (continue)
“You are A Priest Forever….”
The Importance of European, particularly Italian
Married Priests, at the Roman Pilgrimage.
Europe is the center of Christianity. The suffering has been too
much, which has been brought about by celibacy, we long all of us
Catholic married priests, together with other Catholic Churches who
have married priests, to testify to the roots of original priesthood
which St. Peter as our Patron and our first married Pope....
(continue)
My Dear Fellow Married
Priests in Italy,
Thank you
for your e-mail. I would like to make it clear to you that your concept of
married priests and ours are different. We are not organizing our married
priests to be recognized by Rome that they are priests, in spite of the fact
that they are married. We have released those who have been in contact with
us from the bondages by which they were bound by the Roman Catholic Church.
Our reasons are very profound. (continue)
My Dear Fellow Married Priests in Italy
link:
http://marriedpriestsnow.splinder.com/post/13923998/My+Dear+Fellow+Married+Priests
15 September 2007
My
Dear Fellow Married Priests in Italy,
Thank
you for your e-mail. I would like to make it clear to you that your concept of
married priests and ours are different. We are not organizing our married
priests to be recognized by Rome that they are priests, in spite of the fact
that they are married. We have released those who have been in contact with us
from the bondages by which they were bound by the Roman Catholic Church. Our
reasons are very profound. And behind it all, we have the Blessed Virgin Mary
and the late Holy Father, Blessed Pope John Paul II. It is up to you to believe
it or not.
We
are not quarreling with your convictions as Associations of Married Priests in
Rome. Might be that if this movement started in Europe, then since Europe is
used to give orders to others, to teach them, to impose on them their way of
thinking, your reaction may be justified. We do not want to put up an arena of
theological discussions. We are here to act, and defend our Mother Church, and
to prevent her from falling into a precipice, in which already some parts of her
body are in.
Our
words may sound harsh and bitter, but they are not intended to. It is due to the
fact that our Catholic Church was destined to do great things for the Glory of
God, and for the salvation of the whole humanity. But not all is lost. Already
the bad connotation with the word “Roman,” as we are coming to Rome, it is all
for the glory of the same Rome. The Holy Father is aware of our coming, and we
do not want to hold meetings on what is not our competence. Moreover, we
represent many churches. Our achievement, to our satisfaction is that through
our movement many churches have accepted to make Pilgrimage to St. Peter, the
head of married priests:
“We
believe in One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.”
We
may be reunited with you in spirit, but not that we become you since you are in
Rome, and that your world is a “Fac Totum.” The Strasburg Ecumenical Meeting
which took place on 22nd April, 2007; says that Italian Catholics do
not feel the necessity of unity with other churches, since the majority in Italy
are Catholics.
God
Bless You.
Yours
Sincerely,
+Archbishop E. Mi