ROMAN Catholic Church (RCC) excommunicated Zambian prelate archbishop, Emmanuel Milingo, has said he is still committed to his ministry of healing and demon-exorcism.Archbishop Milingo said yesterday that he was yearning for a platform on which to preach, cast out demons and pray for the sick.
In response to a Press query, through an e-mail from South Korea where he is currently based, the 77-year-old Zambian cleric said the last renewal of the Church was definitely coming.He said people with a narrow perception of the Church could not understand the mission he was currently carrying out but it would unfold with time.
At the age of 39, in 1969, Pope Paul VI, as the bishop of Zambia's Lusaka Archdiocese consecrated Archbishop Milingo.
" What I am doing is not completely understood by those whose understanding and vision of the Church is narrow.
"More is coming in the Church, not as it is, but as it will be and ought to be. It is the era of the last renewal of the Church," Archbishop Milingo said.
Promising to come to Zambia in a few months' time, the controversial faith healer said he was, however, not interested to come and generate what: "religious quarrels".
"I am not interested to come to Zambia to fill the newspapers with religious quarrels. I have no time for that.
"I need a platform to preach, to cast out devils and to heal the sick. No time for quibbles.I am coming in few months," he said.
In 1983, Archbishop Milingo was asked to step down as Lusaka Archbishop because of his exorcism and faith healing performances.
He was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in 2006 after he ordained four married men as bishops, without the mandate from higher church authorities.
Archbishop Milingo has since founded the "Married Priest Now" an organisation calling for the reconciliation of the Church with married members of the clergy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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