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Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican officials will hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss requests for lifting the celibacy requirement made by priests, the Vatican has said. The summit was called because of the recent excommunication of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo. It will examine the implications of the ``disobedience'' of the Zambian prelate, who was excommunicated for installing four married men as bishops. He had previously angered the Holy See in 2001, when he was married to a South Korean acupuncturist chosen for him by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church, in a group wedding ceremony in New York. Upon appeal from Pope John Paul II a few months later, he renounced that union. Archbishop Milingo disappeared from his residence outside Rome in June, resurfacing a month later in Washington to announce he was back with his wife. — AP

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