tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post8298362314729594974..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Laicization is not a punishment. . . Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-5944917313013606912019-03-27T12:42:45.424-05:002019-03-27T12:42:45.424-05:00If Theodore McCarrick still wants to work, he coul...If Theodore McCarrick still wants to work, he could always follow Chad Bird's example and start up his own ministry. There is always plenty of room in this world for yet another non-denominational roadside preacher. Not to pick on Mr. Bird, but he is the only theologian and former pastor that I can think of at the moment.<br /><br />Wait...McCarrick is 89 years old? How "convenient" for Rome to wait until he is well into retirement age to laicize him! I guess he will now be forced to enjoy retirement on a full time basis, and maybe at a future location somewhere warm. It reminds me of the LCMS waiting until Matt Becker had enough years in the LCMS retirement plan before he was "asked" to leave the LCMS......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-36041474942306938382019-03-27T10:28:55.853-05:002019-03-27T10:28:55.853-05:00"O boy, we fixed him. We made him a layman. ...<i>"O boy, we fixed him. We made him a layman. Oh, how terrible."</i> <br /><br />To the devout papist it is.<br /><br />As for Lutherans in the Missouri Synod, next month we can observe that 180 years ago Bishop Martin Stephan was deposed and excommunicated. Furthermore, the Missouri Saxons rowed him across the Mississippi River and deposited him on the Illinois side at a place called <a href="https://lutheranmuseumdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/devils-bake-oven-illinois.jpg" rel="nofollow">Devil’s Bake Oven</a> (the house wasn't there then).Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com