Karl Lehmann

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social…

— Karl Lehmann

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact…

— Karl Lehmann

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps…

— Karl Lehmann

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

— Karl Lehmann

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of…

— Karl Lehmann

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list…

— Karl Lehmann

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us…

— Karl Lehmann

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't…

— Karl Lehmann

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

— Karl Lehmann