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	Vatican Withholds Milingo’s Pension Times of Zambia December 19, 2009 http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=6&id=1261207025 EXCOMMUNICATED Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has insisted he remains a fully-ordained Catholic cleric and demanded his pension he worked for while in Rome. Speaking on Radio Phoenix Let the people talk programme yesterday, Archbishop Milingo, 79, accused the Catholic Church of holding on to his pension and that the church had in the past gotten away with several such cases. “I was assigned by late Pope John Paul VI to work while in Rome. I worked for 23 years. The church now wants to take advantage of marriage to deny me my pension,” he said. Bishop Milingo said having been baptised at the age of three months, served as a priest for 50 years and a bishop for 40 years, he could never be excommunicated. He challenged those condemning his decision to marry that they were doing so out of ignorance and that he knew a lot about the Catholic Church than they did. Bishop Milingo claimed the Church had in the past executed clerics who decided to come up with intentions to marry and still serve as priests. “I know a lot about the church than those condemning me. The church twice executed those who came up with such intentions and I know where they are buried in Rome,” Bishop Milingo said. Bishop Milingo was a former Roman Catholic archbishop from Zambia, and was consecrated as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka in 1969 by Pope Paul VI aged 39. In 1983, he was asked to step down from his position as archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices which were not approved by church authorities. In 2001 when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, despite the prohibition on marriage for ordained priests.
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