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Out of the Labyrinth: the Conversion of a Roman Catholic Priest Out of the Labyrinth: The Conversion of a Roman Catholic Priest 1 Also Available from LutheranLibrary.org The Converted Catholic Magazine by Leo Lehmann. Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann. Vatican Policy in the Second World War by Leo Lehmann. How The Popes Treated The Jews by Leo Lehmann. 2 About The Lutheran Library The Lutheran Library is a non-profit publisher of good Christian books. All are available in a variety of formats for use by anyone for free or at very little cost. There are never any licensing fees. We are Bible believing Christians who subscribe wholeheartedly to the Augsburg Confession as an accurate summary of Scripture, the chief article of which is Justification by Faith. Our purpose is to make available solid and encouraging material to strengthen believers in Christ. Prayers are requested for the next generation, that the Lord will plant in them a love of the truth, such that the hard-learned lessons of the past will not be forgotten. Please let others know of these books and this completely volunteer endeavor. May God bless you and keep you, help you, defend you, and lead you to know the depths of His kindness and love. 3 Out of the Labyrinth: The Conversion of a Roman Catholic Priest Sequel to “The Soul of a Priest” By Leo Herbert Lehmann NEW YORK AGORA PUBLISHING COMPANY © 1947 / 2021 (CC BY 4.0) LutheranLibrary.org 4 Dedication To the Lord and Saviour This work is thankfully dedicated With acknowledgment to F.M. Whose spiritual insight helped with many parts of it 5 Contents About The Lutheran Library Dedication Contents Preface by Lutheran Librarian 1. Into The Light 2. What Salvation Really Means 3. How Sins Are Really Forgiven 4. Counterfeit Christianity 5. Religion As A System Of Power 6. False Loyalty 7. New Creation In Christ 8. Christ Jesus — As Sovereign Lord 9. The Impossibility Of Purgatory 10. Pagan Origins Of Purgatory 11. Keys For The Wrong Lock 12. How We Are Sanctified Not A ‘Laundering’ Process Sanctification As ‘Absolute Position’ Sanctification As A ‘Walk’ Our Cooperation 13. Jezebel Abroad In America 14. Priests And Ex-Priests 15. The Tyranny Of Priestly Celibacy 16. By What Authority…? 17. God Is Not A Backstairs Politician 18. The Bondage Of Doing 19. Rome’s Salvation By Law 20. The True Priesthood Of Christ 21. The Conversion Of Martin Luther 22. What Would Christ Say Today? 6 23. The Fellowship Of His Sufferings 24. What The Pope Refuses To Believe 25. The Roman Catholic Church And Marriage 26. The Problem Of Mixed Marriages 27. The Real Catholic Church Of Christ 28. The ‘A-to-Z’ Of Salvation 29. Christ — the Only One 30. Five Basic Postulates Of Protestantism 1. The Primacy of Christ. 2. Man’s Personal, Direct Access to God. 3. A Conscious Sense of Pardoned Sin. 4. Belief in the Right of Private Judgment. 5. The Bible as the Word of God. 31. Evangelical Movements Within The Church Of Rome Three-Cornered Conflict Council Of Trent Rift Within Catholicism Jesuits Vs. Dominicans Jansenius Jesuit Opposition To Grace Port Royal Sufferings And Persecutions Catholics Today (1947) 32. Since Luther 33. Hoofbeat And Footfall Copyright Notice How Can You Find Peace With God? Benediction Basic Biblical Christianity | Books to Download Essential Theology | Books to Download Devotional Classics | Books to Download 7 Preface by Lutheran Librarian In republishing this book, we seek to introduce this author to a new generation of those seeking authentic spirituality. &emsp Leo Herbert Lehmann (1895-1950) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest who converted to Protestantism. He edited the Converted Catholic Magazine and led Christ’s Mission in New York. The Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry finds, restores and republishes good, readable books from Lutheran authors and those of other sound Christian traditions. All titles are available at little to no cost in proofread and freshly typeset editions. Many free e-books are available at our website LutheranLibrary.org. Please enjoy this book and let others know about this completely volunteer service to God’s people. May the Lord bless you and bring you peace. A Note about Typos [Typographical Errors]: Over time we are revising the books to make them better and better. If you would like to send the errors you come across to us, we’ll make sure they are corrected. 8 1. Into The Light “Our soul is escaped like a bird out of the net of the fowlers’, the net is broken and we are escaped.” Ps. 124. THE CONVERSION OF A PRIEST is a special kind of conversion — something more than a ‘turning around’ as the word conversion signifies. It is rather a complete turn-over, a spiritual ‘somersault.’ It involves a descent from his false position as an alter Christus, “another Christ,” as he was formerly called, to a humble admission that he is but another sinner saved by Christ. As a priest, I was hailed as a “mediator between God and man,” offering sacrifices daily for the sins of men and forgiving them their sins in confession. I was regarded as indispensable to sinners, since without the priest in Roman Catholic teaching there is no salvation. The change that took place within me by my conversion required a complete repudiation of all this. From my sacerdotal eminence I had to come tumbling down upon my knees to confess that, like all other men, I myself was a sinner needing to be saved by Christ. Such a conversion is not as simple as it may seem. In the first place, it is entirely against the nature of man so to humble himself as to voluntarily renounce the privileges and power by which he is endowed in such a lofty estate. Nor is such a conversion attained merely by the act of just leaving the Roman priesthood. Neither is it arrived at by intellectual disquisition, the logic of reasoning or the metaphysics of argumentation. If it is hardly possible for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, it is not at all possible to enter head first into the Kingdom of Heaven. Apprehension of the truth of Christ with acceptance of Him as personal Saviour is by a sense other than pure intellect; different too from mere emotional affectation. My experience has taught me that it can only come 9 by a spiritual sense, itself a gift of God first implanted in the soul as necessary for the reception of his supreme gift of eternal life — an “act of God” which, like a bolt of lightning, everlastingly fuses the innermost being of a man with his Creator and Saviour. There is nothing in human reasoning, or logic, or history that can otherwise explain it. How foolish appear now to me those little words, compounded of Greek and Latin to give them a sense of pretended importance, which I learned as a student and a priest and which were supposed to explain and dogmatically prove the mystery of Christian soteriology! As well try to measure the infinite with a twelve-inch ruler. In my book, The Soul of a Priest, I set down objectively the odyssey of my soul during the years of my life as a boy, a student and a priest. Therein were detailed the historical events that finally led to my break with the priesthood of the Church of Rome after serving it well and faithfully on three continents. It is to fill up that history of a soul’s further triumphant search for Christian truth that I publish this second book which contains the results of that soul’s spiritual development. These writings have been fashioned by my experiences as editor of The Converted Catholic Magazine and director of Christ’s Mission in New York during the past ten years. I cannot imagine any more objective or experimental way of showing how completely I have rejected the erroneous teachings and false pretensions of all that I was taught to believe and to teach as a priest. This is all the more clearly demonstrated by the method I use of contrasting the truth with the lie, the genuine with the counterfeit, in all that concerns salvation in the Christian dispensation. The method followed in these chapters is both legitimate and justifiable. For I soon learned that the Word of God is truly like a two-edged sword definitely cleaving apart the true from the false, the things of God from those of Satan. There are no nuances of Gospel truth as there are of colors. There are no mere half-truths concerning creation and salvation, no half- measures to God’s actions. Christianity, I have discovered, is an either/or religion. By it you are either saved or not saved, made alive or dead. To say or teach, as I used to in Roman Catholicism, that it is a religion that leaves you at death not good enough for heaven yet not bad enough for hell, is a 10 mockery of logic as well as a mockery of Calvary. It is like squaring the circle to say that at the same time you can be saved and not saved. It is Satan who has thus made a labyrinth of the Christian religion, with himself as the false guide through the inextricable maze. On men’s nose he thrusts the spectacles of falsehood, through which they see everything entirely opposite to what God has ordained and accomplished for our salvation. Distant things appear near, near things distant, small things large, and large things small, ugly things beautiful and beautiful things ugly,white black and black white, life as death and death as life — in short, the mystery of the Cross as foolishness and his own mystery of iniquity as wisdom.
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