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| When did you first sense something was wrong? When they posed like desperate teens with Katy Perry in her onesie? When they pretended The CORE was a separate mission parish and not just an evening service designed for sheep-stealing at St. Peter in Freedom? |
The key to the decades of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is protection - denial, deception, and retaliation against the victims.
The Roman Catholics treat every priest as a "son of the Church." Any priest who is loyal to the institution of the Roman Catholic Church is owed utmost protection, because they all know the truth would bring the entire structure down. In fact, some of the revelations have toppled cardinals, bishops, and priests - in America and across the world.
Only one priest in Boston was punished for the staggering number of boys abused by priests in that archdiocese. Rome rewarded Cardinal Law's obstruction and lies by moving him to the Vatican, but the one priest who told the truth about the archdiocese was publicly humiliated and removed from the priesthood. The non-abusing truth-teller was kicked out while the child rapists were protected and transferred around the archdiocese.
The Columbus Template - Like Walther's
WELS works exactly the same way, as Tim Glende knows. He grew up in a non-WELS congregation (St. Paul, German Village) that pretended to be WELS. When Floyd Luther Stolzenburg was kicked out the LCMS ministry for adultery, he came back to Columbus to shop for a church or a job or both. No school system would let him work among children. No denomination wanted him, and he tried a few, according to the LCMS DP who spoke to me about it. But he joined St. Paul and soon had WELS setting up a Church Growth agency--with the help of Paul Kuske and Robert Mueller--so he could teach WELS about Church Growth. The hand-picked board refused to hire Floyd, because of his obnoxious behavior - not because they were told the truth. The WELS leaders lied through their teeth about Floyd and never stopped lying.
So - more money was given so Floyd could have his pet job along with Roger Zehms, a WELS Shrinker, also recently divorced. Both men slandered their wives (like Walther slandering Mrs. Stephan) and did their best to wreck Columbus.
Nevertheless, Zehms was handed a job at WELS Lutherans for Life. Paul Kuske and Robert Schumann wrote references for Stolzenburg to get an independent parish. However, Kuske denied he anything to do with that.
UOJ in WELS means wrong is right, and right is wrong. WELS is an abusive sect that happily forces sex offenders on its members, blaming the victims for rape and seduction. Some people think Muslim law is bad for punishing the women in a rape. WELS does the same thing.
When vicar Scott Zerbe (married with a child) had an affair with a minor girl in Fred Adrian's congregation, WELS went to court to deny benefits to the girl. Adrian wrote up two stories about the vicarage. Either he knew about the seduction or he did not. Fred was chairman of the district missions board when Floyd was being promoted to his own congregation. WELS denied to the court that they had knowledge of any other scandals. I detailed a number of them for the girl's lawyer, and she took it to the judge. The judge ordered WELS to produce a list, so the jury awarded the girl $400,000.
Fred Adrian wrote a letter to the congregation, saying, "Don't worry - insurance will pay for it." Ha. Everyone pays higher premiums when dolts like Adrian are in charge.
Otten was angry with me when I gave him the Zerbe story. He spiked it. WELS has always had a team to manage Otten and kill stories. The LCMS does the same thing. Otten is a synod lapdog.
WELS still hyperventilates at the mention of my name, even if there are six degrees of separation. One pastor heard that a layman visiting his church was from Shepherd of Peace. His face turned white - "That was Jackson's church!" The layman thought this was a hilarious reaction, almost 20 years later.
I was always blamed for the conflicts in Columbus, even though I did not force two Shrinkers onto the congregations there. The Michigan District got wise finally and voted Kuske out of office, but they replaced Mueller with a clone, John Seifert. All the WELS DPs are alike, a dozen rotten eggs in the same carton.
Dispose of the toxic contents with care.
Things must have calmed down when I left Columbus, right? Wrong. The situation with Schumann and Nitz blew up because WELS could no longer make up lies fast enough.
WELS Treats Women and Children Like Dirt
The Northern Wisconsin District of WELS is busy retaliating against anyone who questions the abuse in Fox Valley, at St. Peter in Freedom.
Deputy Doug Engelbrecht has already warned various pastors against speaking out against the harassment and pastoral misbehavior. Warning from a WELS DP means, "I can do anything I want to you, and no one can touch me. I am infallible."
The lady and her husband have faced the hostility, shunning, and financial penalties of being on the wrong end of the WELS cash cow.
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| Anyone questioning Fox Valley behavior is up against: Mark Jeske, the real boss of WELS; Thrivent money, with Jeske on the board; Church and Change, which has grown under Mark Schroeder's non-leadership. |
