Can We Say "Excommunication"?

Okay, so I'm a fairly new Catholic and I'm not always up on all the under-currents and what not in Vatican City, but how did I manage to miss this? Apparently an African Archbishop, Milingo, has totally lost it and honestly I'm surprised that something drastic hasn't been done to correct his mistakes so far.

According to an article by CWN, Archbishop Milingo was forced to resign as Bishop of Lusaka after he led a series of unorthodox "healing services." The local people and Rome felt he was acting more like a witch doctor than a Bishop. So he ended up being summoned to Rome where he held no pastoral appointment. Then he started doing those services again! He was further corrected by the Vatican, but apparently that did no good because, well...I'll let a segment of the article from CWN explain it...

Archbishop Milingo's most spectacular departure from orthodoxy came in 2001, when he announced his adherence to the Unification Church, led by the self-proclaimed Korean messiah, Sun Myung Moon. In a mass wedding ceremony in New York, he took a Korean bride, chosen for him by Rev. Moon. In August of the same year a repentant Archbishop Milingo returned to Rome for a personal meeting with Pope John Paul II (bio - news), renounced his attempted marriage, reaffirmed his Catholic faith, and disappeared for a year of reflection and prayer.

This year, after his disappearance in June, the archbishop surfaced in Washington, DC, on July 12, in the company of the self-proclaimed Archbishop George Stallings, a former Catholic priest who now heads a sect known as the African-American Catholic Congregation. In an appearance with Stallings at the National Press Club, Archbishop Milingo called for an end to priestly celibacy. The African archbishop later revealed that he had returned to the Korean woman he sought to marry in 2001.

Crazy? Led Astray? A little of both? I'm going to leave that up to you, the reader. But honestly, stop this guy! And now they are concerned because he's been in talks with Dan Brown (writer of The Da Vinci Code) and has an agreement to work with him on his next book! That's all we need, some renegade crazy-priest giving credibility to more false excuses for Brown's conspiracy theories!

Sure this article's title is 'Can We Say "Excommunication?"', but I know the Church would rather handle this without going that far. Still, I'm going to guess he's only a sneeze away from being outside of the Church's loving embrace, and that's a horrific place to be. Want to find hell on earth?...excommunication might be pretty close.

P.S. I found this on the Unification.net website, which is the website of the Unificationism movement that "Archbishop" Milingo takes part in. It's a letter from Milingo explaining his actions. And for those of you who don't know much about it, the leader of the Unification movement is Sun Myung Moon (pictured here), who believes he is the Messiah. Check this out.