Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church. — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point. — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
