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When Martin Luther laid the cornerstone of the Reformation 456 years ago, the object of his bitterest invective was the Pope. Last week, as part of a continuing ecumenical study on doctrinal problems dividing Lutherans and Roman Catholics, a commission of 13 Catholic and 13 Lutheran theologians issued a remarkable statement. The issue of papal primacy, they said, "need not be a barrier to reconciliation" of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches...
...Evangelical Lutheran minister who had migrated from Poland, Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas. The family was poor; Jaworski, his two brothers and sister worked their way through Baylor University, where Leon earned a law degree in 1925. He became so skilled a courtroom lawyer that he was hired by a leading Houston law firm, Fulbright, Crocker, Freeman & Bates. Through the years, he showed a talent for absorbing a mass of complex information literally overnight and giving a masterly performance in court the next morning. He became a senior partner in 1951. Today Fulbright, Crocker & Jaworski ranks second only...
...preachers" who also were being allowed to infringe on the office of the ordained minister. "The church of God exists essentially through the spiritual office," Betzner said. "Without it, there is no grace." As for ordaining women, he contended that such a step is not based on Lutheran doctrine...
While some Lutheran traditionalists in Bavaria chose to leave their church, conservatives in the U.S. have consolidated control of the administration and seminaries of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. But it may be at the cost of a serious schism...
...rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...