[OLDCATH-L] In Re Milingo

[Sam'l B.]

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Jeff Duntemann wrote:
>  
> 
> I may have posted something on this years ago, but there is a chapter in
> an excellent book describing a first-hand encounter with +Milingo before
> the whole Moonie thing came up. The book is John Cornwell's 1991
> hardcover *The Hiding Places of God*, originally published as *Forces of
> Darkness, Forces of Light* in the UK. (The UK edition is uncommon here
> in the US.) You can get it from ABEBooks for $5 postpaid, and it's a
> wonderful read, about a man (Cornwell) who takes a sabbatical from his
> day job to fly around the world looking for evidence of the
> miraculous--and the demonic. Chapter 24 describes an "exorcism Mass"
> that gets completely out of hand, and may shed some light on +Milingo's
> spiritual worldview.
> 
> There are other chapters in the book about healers, stigmatics, Marian
> apparitions (he interviews one of the Garabandal seers), weeping
> statues, the odor of sanctity, and lots of other things in the general
> vein of "physical manifestations of mysticism." The book is beautifully
> written and worth having, whether you're interested specifically in
> +Milingo or not.
> 
> Pax Christi--
> 
> --Jeff Duntemann
> Colorado Springs, Colorado
> 
> On 12/17/2009 10:17 PM, Sam'l B wrote:
>  > Bishop Marty Patton had posted a looong article with a couple of
>  > loooong quotes in it, which the Old Catholic Discussion Listserver
>  > choked on as being entirely too looooong. I have taaken the posts,
>  > and adding my comments,made the whole thing even loooooonger, and
>  > posted it as an HTML file on the ACU Web site:
>  >
>  > http://am-cath.org/In_Re_Milingo.html 
> <http://am-cath.org/In_Re_Milingo.html>
>  >
>  > Short Version:
>  >
>  > 1) Milingo is a pain in the . . . ear . . . and should be ignored.
>  >
>  > 2) Rome is making an enormous fuss about very little.
>  >
>  > +S.B.Bassett