The Benedict Option and the Collapse of the UOJ Church Corporations

Cited by Father Weedon LCMS -
William Weedon, S.S.P.

LCMS Director of Worship / International Center Chaplain / Host KFUO's "Thy Strong Word"

 https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/benedict-xvi-ganswein-benedict-option/

1. It is “an act of Divine Providence” that we are having this conference today, on September 11, because the sex abuse scandal is the Catholic Church’s own 9/11.

2. No churches have been destroyed (so far) by terrorists, but symbolically, US churches (“all the churches of Pennsylvania, along with the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington”) have “collapsed” because of the “mortal wounds” delivered to souls by “priests of the Catholic Church.”  [The basilica cite might be a reference to Cardinal Wuerl]

 When the same scandals light up the LCMS, does Holy Mother Missouri help the victims or save their money "for our missions in Russia?" Are the enablers voted out or re-elected? Ditto, WELS-ELS-CLC (sic).

Walther on Synodoquest - Navel-Gazing Raised to an Art Form

Peter M. Prange (Peterprange) New member Username: Peterprange Post Number: 21 Registered: 8-2011

Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 9:49 am:       To make the presence of a congregational pastor absolutely necessary for the church would, of necessity, make the congregational pastorate part of the essence of the church. But Walther maintains

In the same essay, Walther writes concerning the congregational pastorate (Pfarramt): "The Apology does not have Grabau's understanding,


August Pieper, who was Walther's student, echoed his teacher when carefully distinguishing between the necessity of the congregational pastorate for the wellbeing of the church (Pieper asserted with Walther

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GJ - A reader wanted to rename Cascione's Blog of Fog WaltherQuest, but we know that Reclaiming Walther relieves all participants of reading or quoting Luther.

Roman Catholic religious used to talk about their TLC. Let's see if that fits the Missouri Synod.

1. Triumphalism - We are the best, and others wish they was us.
2. Legalism - We mandate what is not the Law and ignore what is the Law.
3. Clericalism - You dare to question someone who studied Greek, a descendant of (fill in the blank) a son of the Church?

That is why LCMS clergy join Rome or mini-pope to Eastern Orthodoxy (see ELDONA for an example). LCMS clergy conclude that real TLC can only be found in the Church of Rome.

 Since Walther was without actual sin, he was assumed into heaven. To be fair, many LCMS pastors are faithful and love Luther. However, they are rare in the hierarchy.