Karl Lehmann Quotes
- 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 a…
- 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 those…
- The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
- 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…
- 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…
- The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of…
- 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…
- 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 utility.
- Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.