thnking this has something to do with "Birthing Persons" and apologizing to the "castrati".
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"Archbishop Promises to Obey the Pope and Leave His New Wife"
(Reuters August 15, 2001)
ROME - Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who shocked the Vatican by marrying a woman chosen by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has written to Pope John Paul II renouncing his life with his Korean wife and reconciling with the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said today.
In a letter issued by the Vatican today, Archbishop Milingo, 71, said he had turned his back on Mr. Moon's Unification Church, satisfying three conditions set by the Vatican for the Zambian prelate to avoid excommunication.
"I now rededicate my life to the Catholic Church with all my heart, I renounce my life together with Maria Sung and my dealings with Rev. Moon and his Family Federation for World Peace," read the letter, which was dated Aug. 11.
Ms. Sung, whom Archbishop Milingo married on May 27 in New York City in a mass wedding organized by Mr. Moon, accused the Vatican of holding the archbishop a prisoner.
"I am convinced he is a prisoner," said Ms. Sung, who had said on Monday that she might be pregnant with the prelate's child.
"I have tried to move the consciences of people who are holding him," she said at a news conference in Rome. "Now I think it is time to go to the police."
Last week, Archbishop Milingo turned up in Rome unexpectedly, It was apparently an attempt to make amends with the Vatican, which had threatened to excommunicate him after his marriage.
He has not been seen in public since last Wednesday.
Ms. Sung, 43, arrived in Rome a few days after Archbishop Milingo met the pope, demanding to see her husband. She has started a fast and has said she will not eat again until she either sees him or dies.
"What the Vatican has said until now has been all lies," Ms. Sung told reporters. "I don't believe it. Someone else is making him say these things."
"Even if he telephones me and tells me he wants to leave me, I still won't believe it because I'm sure he will have been drugged," said Ms. Sung, an acupuncturist from South Korea.
The Rev. Philip Schanker, a spokesman for the Unification Church, who traveled to Rome with Ms. Sung, attacked the Vatican's handling of the situation.
"Tonight I fear only for the archbishop's life because any institution built on such falsehood will crumble no matter what," he told reporters. "This isn't the Middle Ages. If the Vatican wants to do the right thing, they should let Milingo speak for himself."
A Baptist minister in the group backing Ms. Sung added, "The archbishop's silence leads us to believe that his human rights are being violated."
The Vatican has said that Archbishop Milingo is on retreat for a "period of reflection and prayer."
The archbishop said last week he was torn between his wife, the pope and his respect for Mr. Moon.
In July, the Vatican told the archbishop that he would be excommunicated unless he agreed to:
"(a) Leave Maria Sung, (b) sever all links with the sect, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, (c) declare publicly his fidelity to the doctrine and ecclesiastical discipline of celibacy and to manifest his obedience to the Supreme Pontiff by a clear and unequivocal act."
In the letter issued today, Archbishop Milingo said he had heard the pope's call to come back to the Catholic Church partly as "a paternal order to live out my faithfulness and obedience to you, Christ's representative on earth."
He added in his letter to the pope, "I am your humble and obedient servant."
"Archbishop to Leave Wife, Vatican Says"
(Associated Press, August 14, 2001)
https://www.cesnur.org/2001/moon_aug13.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/15/world/archbishop-promises-to-obey-the-pope-and-leave-his-new-wife.html