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| | Pope Excommunicates African Prelate With History of Defiance - Los Angeles Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | ROME 8212; Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, a provocative African prelate known for exorcisms, mass healing ceremonies and temporarily breaking with the church to marry a Korean acupuncturist, was excommunicated Tuesday by the Vatican. |
 | | Technically, Milingo, 76, who was named a bishop in Zambia in 1969, can restore himself to good standing with the church if he repents and disavows his actions, but he lately has seemed bent on mounting a challenge to papal authority. |
 | | Milingo, born in a village in what is today Zambia, has long been a source of embarrassment for the church. |
| www.latimes.com /news/nationworld/world/la-fg-milingo27sep27,0,1968768.story?track=tothtml (911 words) |
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