For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those. — 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 school for introducing us to the universal dimension 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
