Groups express concern over Married Priests Now

The Daily Record of 12/7/2006 contains an article reflecting the split in this movement between Married Priests Now and other groups calling for an end to mandatory celibacy such as CORPUS and CITI. The other groups are uncomfortable with Archbishop Milingo's connection to Revd. Sun Myung Moon and also the schismatic nature of Married Priests Now.

The connection with the Unification Church "'doesn't click with most Roman Catholics,' said Russell Ditzel, president of CORPUS, a national organization representing 1,500 priests who left ministries in the Roman Catholic Church to get married."

In the article, Peter Paul Brennan, who was ordained a bishop by Milingo within the structure of Married Priests Now, denies that Moon has any involvement with the movement but goes on to say that Milingo's wife receives funds from the Unification Church and, as Milingo is no longer on the Catholic Church's payroll, this is how the couple lives.

CITI also declined to participate in the Married Priests Now convention and Louise Haggett, CITI's founder, said: "We are Roman Catholics and plan to stay that way."

The rest of the Daily Record article is available here.