Another e-mail:

K-Lo,
I think conservative/orthodox/confessing Protestants are all bubbly today
about Benedict XVI because our Catholics brothers are showing the mainline
Protestant denominations what it means to be faithful. It is now the
so-called “moderates” of these churches who have long been victorious in
forcing the relaxation of doctrine and church teachings under the banner of
modernization who look “behind the times.” They now seem like an old pair
of marbled bell-bottoms rather than the cutting edge of the future of
Christianity they thought they were. For some denominations, it may be too
late, but there are pockets of orthodoxy that are thriving even in these
dying denominations. They are celebrating with conservative Catholics this
week.
As a Confessional Lutheran in one of those pockets of orthodoxy, I must
confess to being enchanted by this new GERMAN Pope. What would Martin
Luther say?
Congratulations!