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Politica vaticana

MILINGO torna da MOON e, insieme, rilanciano la sfida alla Chiesa ’cattolica’, sulla questione dei "PRETI SPOSATI".

martedì 26 settembre 2006 di Federico La Sala
[...] La strategia di Milingo e Moon sembra essere molto chiara: «Contattateci, forniremo supporto e aiuti finanziari a voi e alle vostre famiglie», è stato l’appello rivolto ai preti sposati di tutto il mondo ben conoscendo le condizioni di sofferenza a cui vanno incontro i preti quando decidono di sposarsi.
La questione dei "preti sposati" diventa dunque decisivo per la chiesa cattolica. Il chiudersi a riccio, come ha fatto papa Woityla prima e Ratzinger poi, non ha fatto altro che (...)

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> MILINGO torna da MOON e, insieme, rilanciano la sfida alla Chiesa ’cattolica’, sulla questione dei "PRETI SPOSATI".

domenica 5 novembre 2006

Milingo scrive al Papa e ai vescovi americani

In una lettera a Benedetto XVI l’arcivescovo scomunicato avanza una soluzione per la crisi dei luoghi di culto: "Molte parrocchie non hanno preti sufficienti per servire il popolo di Dio" , Di seguito il testo originale delle lettere in inglese. *

’’Anche Gesù chiamò uomini sposati come suoi discepoli’’ Milingo al Papa: "Richiamare sacerdoti sposati al servizio della Chiesa"

Roma, 4 nov. - (Adnkronos/Ign) - Richiamare i sacerdoti sposati nel pieno servizio ministeriale della Chiesa. E’ quanto chiede mon. Emanule Milingo, recentemente scomunicato da Roma, in una lettera al Papa. Lo ha riferito l’Associazione dei sacerdoti lavoratori sposati, diretta da Giuseppe Serrone, che ha ricevuto dagli Stati Uniti il testo della missiva. Oltre in quella a Benedetto XVI, la richiesta è contenuta anche in un’altra lettera inviata al presidente della Conferenza Episcopale Cattolica dei vescovi americani.

L’ex arcivescovo di Lusaka e gli altri vescovi cattolici della Prelatura "The Married Priests Now" (Peter Paul Brennan, Joseph J. Gouthro, Patrick E. Trujillo, George Augustus Stallings), tutti scomunicati dal Vaticano nel settembre scorso, ha dichiarato don Giuseppe Serrone, "hanno richiesto a Benedetto XVI e ai Vescovi Americani di richiamare i sacerdoti sposati nel pieno servizio ministeriale della Chiesa perché la Chiesa ha sempre avuto al suo interno sacerdoti sposati e Gesù chiamò uomini sposati selezionati a diventare suoi apostoli’’.

’’Molte parrocchie nel mondo non hanno sacerdoti sufficienti per servire il popolo di Dio - prosegue - la soluzione alla crisi e alla chiusura dei luoghi di culto è semplice: richiamare in servizio i sacerdoti sposati. Un nuovo incontro di Married Priests Now, come già annunciato, si terrà a New York dall’8 al 10 Dicembre 2006. La Prelatura, come movimento internazionale dei sacerdoti sposati nel mondo, è disponibile a lavorare con il Papa e i Vescovi per creare nuovi sacerdoti per il nuovo millennio".


Open Letter to Pope and USCCB from Archbishop Milingo

Press Release Press Release

November 3, 2006 For Immediate Release. Suggested Release for Saturday or Sunday Nov 4 and 5.

From: Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo and Married Priests Now! Prelature Washington, D.C. http://www.orgsites.com/ny/married-priests-now/

http://www.archbishopmilingo.org/

Contact: Archbishop Peter Brennan (516) 485 0616 151 Regent Place West Hempstead, New York

Archbishop Milingo (202) 360 2992

Washington, D.C., Nov. 3 -- An Open Letter was sent today to Pope Benedict XVI and to the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops challenging the Pope and the American Bishops, who will be meeting next week in Baltimore, to recall married priests to full ministry in the church. The current crisis in the church caused by a severe shortage of priests is unprecedented. It is caused by the unjust requirement of celibacy for every priest. In the late 60’s and 70’s over 20,000 Roman Catholic priests resigned to marry. Married Priests Now! under the leadership of Archbishop Milingo is calling or the freeing of celibacy by removing the obligation for every Roman Catholic priest to be celibate.

Archbishop Milingo established the Married Priests Now! Prelature because he believes a married priesthood better serves the needs of the faithful in the pews. The married priest models the way a Christian family should live, and because of his own experience, the married priest can better advise married couples on sexual concerns and family problems. The celibate priest does not have the lived experience of marriage to support him.

In his open letter to the pope and bishops, Archbishop Milingo asks that married priests be reinstated, and that married deacons and other trained married men be ordained priests. He reminds the Holy Father that the early church had married priests and that Jesus selected married men to be his apostles.

Throughout the United States, the church has become a Mission Territory once again with priestless parishes because there are not enough celibate priests to serve. Hundreds of churches are closing, lay men and women are being appointed as pastors, priests are traveling between two and three parishes, and the Mass cannot be celebrated for the people even on Sundays. The solution is simple. Recall the married priests who are already trained and experienced as pastors but who are idle because of the man-made rule of celibacy.

The Married Priests Now! Prelature has been established to give a home to the 150,000 married priests around the world and to work with them and for them to convince the Holy Father to allow for married clergy by removing the celibacy rule. A convocation of married priests will be held on December 8-10 in the New York area, details will be found on: http://www.orgsites.com/ny/married-priests-now/

In 1980 a Pastoral Provision gave permission to the Catholic bishops to ordain married Protestant ministers into the Catholic priesthood and to bring them and their families into Roman Catholic parishes. In some cases, the Roman Catholic priest who resigned to marry was replaced by a Pastoral Provision married priest from another church. There are now about 80 such married Pastoral Provision priests in the United States and they have been a successful model of a married priesthood. Married Deacons have also been a successful model for almost fifty years. But the Holy Father and the US bishops persist in punishing their own married priests by not allowing them to serve. A new Pastoral Provision must be designed for 2006 that will restore our own married priests to the church. It is time for a seismic change.

The obligatory celibacy enforced by the Vatican is a sign of the abuse of authority in the church. This misshapen authority, gone haywire, has given birth to the sex abuse scandal by not allowing priests to have the natural outlets for sexuality in marriage or the comfort of a happy and fulfilled family life. Human sexuality is a God given right and it cannot be justly and rightly taken away from young individuals ever or because they want to be priests.

The faithful of the Roman Catholic Church need to see what is happening and become aware of their rights. Write to the pope and to your bishops to ask for the right to elect bishops and pastors of your choice and choose married men. Roman Catholics have no voice in their church because the only democracy in the church is to walk away. And thousands are doing that every day. Married priests are being asked to perform weddings, baptisms, sacraments and masses for Catholics who have walked away so that a new Catholic Church is in formation under the eyes of Rome who refuses to see it. The simple answer is to return the married priesthood of the New Testament Church to our own times. We will have a better and healthier priesthood and preserve the unity of the church.

Married Priests Now! is available to work with the Holy Father and the bishops to create a renewed priesthood for this new millennium with both married and celibate priests.


An Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on Freeing Celibacy

From the Married Priests Now! Prelature

November 4, 2006

Your Holiness,

The Archbishops, Bishops and Priests of the Married Priests Now! Prelature send their cordial greetings to you and to the Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops of the Church.

As you know, the Church throughout the world is in dire straits because of the shortage of priests. Churches are closing, priests are serving two and three parishes, the Mass and the Eucharist is not available to hundreds of thousands of Catholics. Lay men and women are being appointed as canonical pastors of parishes. The Church-at-Large has become a Mission Territory.

In the face of this crisis, there are 150,000 married priests who are ready and willing to serve. And there are married men who have prepared themselves for ordination who can also be called to the priesthood. Some of them are currently married deacons but others have never been ordained at all.

The Married Priests Now! Prelature with its archbishops, bishops and priests considers itself to be a Roman Catholic Personal Prelature in Communion with your Holiness and is part of the Roman Catholic Church. We are Roman Catholic bishops and do not want to fracture the Communion of the Church. Our cause is great because it is for the survival of the Church. We are mature adults, not children, so threats, penalties and punishments are out of place in our conversation and will not work. What will work is an honest discussion about the married priesthood of the New Testament and of the primitive Church. The faithful are already reaching out daily to married priests for weddings, baptisms and funerals on a continuing basis. It is time to free the priesthood from the obligation of celibacy.

This is what needs to be done without delay:

-  1. Married priests and married bishops need to be immediately but gradually reinstated into the fabric of our Church. A vicariate or prelature can be established for married priests (and there was a precedent for this in progress under John Paul II) or they can be recalled through our Married Priests Now! Prelature, or recalled by the local bishops. All penalties need to be waived.

-  2. Married deacons who are trained in theology and ministry ought to be ordained to the priesthood within a year or two.

-  3. Married men who are not ordained need to be welcomed into the seminaries or other training programs for the priesthood within the year.

-  4. Married priests should be able to serve in full time positions with salary, health care plans and pensions or in part time positions. Credit towards pensions should be given for past service to the Church.

-  5. Marriage is a sacrament of the Church. It cannot be said that celibacy is higher or greater than the sacrament of marriage. Marriage is the higher calling and is more difficult than celibacy because it is naturally centered on the spouse and children. Marriage creates great holiness in the husband and wife and in the family. Married Priests families are a model of the Christian family for the other families in the parish. Marriage does not diminish the priest’s dedication to Christ but enhances it.

-  6. We wish to keep the avenues of communication and contact with you open, Your Holiness, and with the other bishops for our Married Priests Now! Prelature.

The priests and bishops of the Married Priests Now! Prelature stand ready and willing to work with you. The Faithful of the Church are now already reaching out to married priests in an enormous way. A new Catholic Church is forming with or without your blessing. There is great urgency in this matter. If you sanction this approach to reinstating married priests and bishops, you will be preserving the unity of the church. The right time is now.

We ask your cordial blessing on all married priests and bishops.

With filial love and devotion,

Emmanuel Milingo Peter Paul Brennan Joseph J. Gouthro Patrick E. Trujillo George Augustus Stallings

Roman Catholic Archbishops The Married Priests Now! Prelature

http://www.orgsites.com/ny/married-priests-now/


An Open Letter to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

From the Married Priests Now! Prelature

November 4, 2006

My Brothers in Christ,

The Archbishops, Bishops and Priests of the Married Priests Now! Prelature send their cordial greetings to you and to the Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops of the USCCB.

As you know, the Church in our country is in dire straits because of the shortage of priests. Churches are closing, priests are serving two and three parishes, the Mass and the Eucharist is not available to hundreds of thousands of Catholics. Lay men and women are being appointed as canonical pastors of parishes. The Church-at-Large has become a Mission Territory.

In the face of this crisis, there are 25,000 or more married priests who are ready and willing to serve. And there are married men who have prepared themselves for ordination who can also be called to the priesthood. Some of them are currently married deacons but others have never been ordained at all.

The Married Priests Now! Prelature with its archbishops, bishops and priests considers itself to be a Roman Catholic Personal Prelature in Communion with Benedict XVI and is part of the Roman Catholic Church. We are Roman Catholic bishops and do not want to fracture the Communion of the Church. Our cause is great because it is for the survival of the Church. We are mature adults, not children, so threats, penalties and punishments are out of place in our conversation and will not work. What will work is an honest discussion about the married priesthood of the New Testament and of the primitive Church. The faithful are already reaching out daily to married priests for weddings, baptisms and funerals on a continuing basis. It is time to free the priesthood from the obligation of celibacy.

This is what needs to be done without delay:

-  1. Married priests and married bishops need to be immediately but gradually reinstated into the fabric of our Church. A vicariate or prelature can be established for married priests (and there was a precedent for this in progress under John Paul II) or they can be recalled through our Married Priests Now! Prelature, or recalled by the local bishops. All penalties need to be waived.

-  2. Married deacons who are trained in theology and ministry ought to be ordained to the priesthood within a year or two.

-  3. Married men who are not ordained need to be welcomed into the seminaries or other training programs for the priesthood within the year.

-  4. Married priests should be able to serve in full time positions with salary, health care plans and pensions or in part time positions. Credit towards pensions should be given for past service to the Church.

-  5. Marriage is a sacrament of the Church. It cannot be said that celibacy is higher or greater than the sacrament of marriage. Marriage is the higher calling and is more difficult than celibacy because it is naturally centered on the spouse and children. Marriage creates great holiness in the husband and wife and in the family. Married Priests families are a model of the Christian family for the other families in the parish. Marriage does not diminish the priest’s dedication to Christ but enhances it.

An apology should be given to married priests for the poor and unjust treatment they have been given by the church.

-  6. We wish to keep the avenues of communication and contact with you open, dear bishops, and with the Holy Father for our Married Priests Now! Prelature.

The priests and bishops of the Married Priests Now! Prelature stand ready and willing to work with you. The Faithful of the Church are now already reaching out to married priests in an enormous way. A new Catholic Church is forming with or without your blessing. There is great urgency in this matter. If you sanction this approach to reinstating married priests and bishops, you will be preserving the unity of the church. The right time is now.

We ask your cordial blessing on all married priests and bishops.

With fraternal love and devotion,

Emmanuel Milingo

Peter Paul Brennan

Joseph J. Gouthro

Patrick E. Trujillo

George Augustus Stallings

Roman Catholic Archbishops

The Married Priests Now! Prelature

http://www.orgsites.com/ny/married-priests-now/

Married Priests Now! 151 Regent Place, West Hempstead, NY 11552 (516) 485 0616

* www.ildialogo.org, Sabato, 04 novembre 2006


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