VATICAN CITY (CNS): Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo resumed his public ministry on Thursday, November 21, ending more than a year of penitential isolation following his return to the Church.
In a brief November 15 statement, the Vatican said the archbishop would preside at a public Mass for the feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at an 11th century Cistercian abbey about 100 km south east of Rome.
In mid-September, Archbishop Milingo, 72, returned to Italy from Argentina, where he had been praying in a house run by the Focolare movement.
He has remained out of public view except for a September 30 Italian television interview in which he said he was eager to resume his faith-healing ministry and that he prayed for the woman with whom he had a short-lived marriage last year.
Archbishop Milingo renounced the marriage and his brief alliance with the movement of the Rev Sun Myung Moon in an August 2001 private audience with Pope John Paul II.
