Walther on Papal bans: “strange fogies” (Der Lutheraner 1871)

      Walther never let up on castigating the schemes of the Pope and Roman church.  When he came across reports in his extensive readings, he could not wait to bring the news to his readers.  And so it was when two notable defections occurred against the Pope, he set pen to paper.  From Der Lutheraner, vol 27 p. 149, June 1, 1871 [EN]: 

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Papal Ban. More than two years ago, the Franciscan priest Clemens Jäger from Prague converted to the Lutheran Church in Dresden and was then employed as a Lutheran pastor at Zehista near Pirna in Saxony. Now, after two long years, he has been excommunicated by the archbishop's consistory in Prague. The papists are strange fogies: even when someone has long since left their house, they still want to throw him out! — 

 

By cable it has recently been reported from Munich that the famous Catholic professor [Johann Joseph Ignaz] von Döllinger in Munich has now also been banished by His Unholiness, the Pope himself, because he absolutely did not want to accept the new article of faith fabricated last year at the Roman Council, that the popes are infallible. W. [Walther]

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While Walther's report on von Döllinger and his stand against the doctrine of papal infallibility is covered in Wikipedia, the conversion of the priest Jäger is not covered at all that I could find.  Walther's report on both of these events, again, brings the actual account of the spiritual matters.