Lutheran leader unhappy with proposal for Lutheran ordinariate
CWN - January 22, 2013
The General Secretary of the World Lutheran Federation has expressed serious misgivings about the prospect that the Vatican could establish an ordinariate for Lutherans entering the Catholic Church.
Rev. Martin Junge said that the creation of a Lutheran ordinariate—similar to the Anglican ordinariates that are already in place—would have "serious ecumenical repercussions" insofar as it would signal the Vatican's encouragement for Lutherans to leave their Protestant communities. Such a move, Rev. Junge said, "would send the wrong signal to Lutheran churches."
Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had raised the possibility of a Lutheran ordinariate in a talk delivered in Rome last week. The archbishop said that some Lutherans would be anxious to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church, while retaining "the legitimate traditions they have developed."
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