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Maria Sung weeps yesterday
as she tells reporters she is prepared starve herself to
death.
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Catholic prelate turns his back on the
Moonies
ARCHBISHOP Emmanuel
Milingo, who shocked the Vatican by marrying a woman chosen for him
by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, has renounced his life with his wife
and returned to the Roman Catholic Church.
In a letter sent
to Pope John Paul II on 11 August and released by the Vatican
yesterday, Archbishop Milingo said he had also turned his back on Mr
Moon’s controversial Unification Church.
"I now rededicate
my life to the Catholic Church with all my heart, I renounce my life
together with [my wife] Maria Sung and my dealings with Reverend
Moon and his Family Federation for World Peace," the letter read.
Archbishop Milingo married Ms Sung at a mass wedding in New
York last May, prompting the Vatican to threaten him with
excommunication. Last week, he turned up unexpectedly at the Pope’s
summer residence near Rome, apparently in the hope of making amends.
"Your words: ‘In the name of Jesus, come back to the
Catholic Church’ were both a call to my home Church and a paternal
order to live out my faithfulness and obedience to you, Christ’s
representative on earth," Archbishop Milingo wrote in the letter.
Archbishop Milingo has not been seen publicly since last
week.
Ms Sung, who says she might be carrying the
Zambian-born archbishop’s child, believes he is being kept away from
her by force and has started a hunger strike, saying she will not
eat anything until she sees Archbishop Milingo or until she dies. -
Reuters
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