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"Landslide of Lutherans into the Catholic Church
by STEVE RAY on JUNE 12, 2012
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Article in National Catholic Register, by my friend Tim Drake
One of the most under-reported religious stories of the past decade has been the movement of Lutherans across the Tiber.
What first began with prominent Lutherans, such as Richard John Neuhaus (1990) and Robert Wilken (1994), coming into the Catholic Church, has become more of a landslide that could culminate in a larger body of Lutherans coming into the collectively.
(GJ - I wrote to Neuhaus a number of times and met him at Ad Fontes.
Robert Wilken was an unloved faculty member at Notre Dame. I didn't have him as a teacher, fortunately. One of Neuhaus' books was dedicated to "Robert Wilken, by the Sea of Galilee".)
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| Neuhaus, RIP, is another product of Concordia St. Louis. He reminds me of Ed Preuss, who taught there, was wildly UOJ, and joined the Roman Catholic Church, becoming a noted scholar and editor for them. He joked that I would not take communion with ELCA at the Ad Fontes conference. I said, "You are Ad Fontes. We are Fontes." |
In 2000, former Canadian Lutheran Bishop Joseph Jacobson came into the Church, eh.
“No other Church really can duplicate what Jesus gave,” Jacobson told the Western Catholic Reporter in 2006.
In 2003, Leonard Klein, a prominent Lutheran and the former editor of Lutheran Forum and Forum Letter came into the Church. Today, both Jacobson and Klein are Catholic priests.
(I met Leonard Klein and his wife at the Ad Fontes conference.)
Over the past several years, an increasing number of Lutheran theologians have joined the Church’s ranks, some of whom now teach at Catholic colleges and universities. They include, but are not limited to: Paul Quist (2005), Richard Ballard (2006), Paul Abbe (2006), Thomas McMichael, Mickey Mattox, David Fagerberg, Bruce Marshall, Reinhard Hutter, Philip Max Johnson, and most recently, Dr. Michael Root (2010).
“The Lutheran church has been my intellectual and spiritual home for forty years,” wrote Dr. Root. “But we are not masters of our convictions. A risk of ecumenical study is that one will come to find another tradition compelling in a way that leads to a deep change in mind and heart. Over the last year or so, it has become clear to me, not without struggle, that I have become a Catholic in my mind and heart in ways that no longer permit me to present myself as a Lutheran theologian with honesty and integrity. This move is less a matter of decision than of discernment.”
It’s been said that “no one converts alone,” suggesting that oftentimes the effect of one conversion helps to move another along a similar path. That’s exemplified through Paul Quist’s story. He describes attending the Lutheran “A Call to Faithfulness” conference at St. Olaf College in June, 1990. There, he listened to, and met, Richard John Neuhaus, who would announce his own conversion just months later.
(Neuhause spoke to potential converts at Ft. Wayne too.)
“What some Lutherans were realizing was that, without the moorings of the Church’s Magisterium, Lutheranism would ineluctably drift from it’s (sic) confessional and biblical source,” wrote Quist.
Many of the converts have come from The Society of the Holy Trinity, a pan-Lutheran ministerium organized in 1997 to work for the confessional and spiritual renewal of Lutheran churches.
(Color me shocked.)
Now, it appears that a larger Lutheran body will be joining the Church. Father Christopher Phillips, writing at the Anglo-Catholic blog, reports that the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church (ALCC) clergy and parishes will be entering into the U.S. ordinariate being created for those Anglicans desiring to enter the Church.
(Don't let the door hit you in the incense pot on the way out.)
According to the blog, the ALCC sent a letter to Walter Cardinal Kasper, on May 13, 2009, stating that it “desires to undo the mistakes of Father Martin Luther, and return to the One, Holy, and True Catholic Church established by our Lord Jesus Christ through the Blessed Saint Peter.” That letter was sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Surprisingly, in October 2010, the ALCC received a letter from the secretary of the CDF, informing them that Archbishop Donald Wuerl had been appointed as an episcopal delegate to assist with the implementation of Angelicanorum coetibus. The ALCC responded that they would like to be included as part of the reunification.
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/tim-drake/the-lutheran-landslide#ixzz1wg1wV9tx"
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