ALPB Online Forum Fussing Over Father Leonard Klein - Almost Ignored WAM II's Death

Father Leonard Klein, left, and Bishop Malooly

Not long ago, Dr. Walter A. Maier II died. He was a Missouri Synod leader and could have been seminary or synod president - until the Preus Crime Family destroyed his reputation by accusing him of false doctrine. The Preus Mob championed Justification Before Faith, the darling dogma of Pietists, Bishop Stephan, Walther, and Halle University. WAM II taught Justification by Faith, as his father did.

The ALPB Online Forum barely mentioned Maier's career, but Father Leonard Klein is being preached into heaven, even as I write. Doubtless he was a nice guy. Team Ichabod met Klein and his wife Christa before he left the Lutheran Church - for Roman Catholicism.

No one can bridge the gap between Rome and Lutheran doctrine. To join Rome after being ordained a Lutheran pastor is a vast betrayal of the Gospel. That is especially true, since this took place when the Roman Catholic hierarchy in America was already exposed for vast corruption. The degradation is so deep that it continues to surface with even more tales of horror, decades later.

Klein came from the liberal circles of Missouri, since he earned an STM at Seminex (officially Christ-Seminex). Klein followed Neuhaus as editor of Lutheran Forum, the ELCA wannabee magazine that turned into the Priest wannabee magazine for a time.

Some of us think that the LCMS pastors are attracted to Rome because they are already trained in the infallibility of the Synod Pope. After experiencing the little Missouri Antichrist, they long for the true Antichrist, his crafts and assaults, smells and bells, endowments and honors.

 "Now Brett. Don't blame Leonard. Have you seen photos of Nadia? I almost joined Rome myself."

RIP - Pastor Father Leonard Klein, Former Editor of the Lutheran Forum

 Richard Neuhaus went from LCMS to Seminex to LCA/ELCA to Rome. He influenced Leonard Klein to become a Roman Catholic priest. The Lutheran Forum was central for a number of Neuhaus conversions. Mrs. Ichabod and I met him and his wife at the Ad Fontes conference, where Neuhaus spoke and Crumley ask me about joining WELS.
More coverage here.

 Fr. Leonard Klein, head of three Wilmington City Catholic churches, has died. Funeral Mass to be held on Dec. 13th

December 4, 2019 — (Wilmington, Delaware) — The Very Reverend Leonard Ray Klein, Rector of the Cathedral of Saint Peter, and Pastor of Saint Patrick and Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Parishes in Wilmington, Delaware, has died today after a valiant battle with cancer. He was 74 years old. The first and only married man to

Very Rev. Leonard R. Klein

be ordained to the priesthood for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Father Klein leaves behind his wife of 49 years, Christa, and two adult children and their families. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Renate, who passed in 2016.

Born on August 4, 1945 in Easton, Pennsylvania, Father Klein earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Yale College, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Master of Sacred Theology from Christ Seminary-Seminex. Ordained to the Lutheran ministry in 1972, he served as a pastoral intern, associate pastor, pastor and senior pastor for Lutheran congregations in New York and Pennsylvania. He served on numerous boards and committees and had written and lectured on various topics during his career as a Lutheran minister.

Father Klein was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church in 2003. Later that year he was accepted as a seminarian for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington and began his studies at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland.  He was ordained to the priesthood by The Most Reverend Michael A. Saltarelli, on April 1, 2006, at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Wilmington.

Father Klein’s early assignments were as a member of the diocesan Family Life Bureau, and Hospital Chaplain. In 2011 he was made pastor of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Patrick Churches. In 2013, he was assigned as rector of the Cathedral of Saint Peter, in addition to the other two parishes. Father served as chaplain to the Saint Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Wilmington, and member of the Board of Saint Francis Hospital in Wilmington. A staunch supporter of pro-life causes and advocate for the vulnerable, Father Klein served as Director of the Office for Pro-Life Activities and Chair of the Respect Life Committee for the Diocese of Wilmington for many years.

NEW: Bishop Malooly will preside at a  concelebrated Mass of Christian burial at the Cathedral of Saint Peter, Sixth and N. West Streets, Wilmington, Delaware at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, December 13, 2019.

Landslide of Lutherans into the Catholic Church | Defenders of the Catholic Faith | Hosted by Stephen K. Ray

 Holy Father Otten would rather promote
The Facts about Luther Dreck
and Randy Engels' Roman Catholic books
than Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant.

Landslide of Lutherans into the Catholic Church | Defenders of the Catholic Faith | Hosted by Stephen K. Ray:

"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".)

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"

McCain is one of the UOJ popes
who drool about Roman Catholicism.
He and Pope Otten were a team in getting
Barry elected Synod President - through guile and dishonesty.

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