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9 quotes by Karl Lehmann

His Eminence Karl Lehmann Cardinal, Bishop of Mainz Cardinal Lehmann, 2014 Church Mainz Cathedral Province Freiburg im Breisgau Diocese Mainz Appointed 21 June 1983 Installed 2 October 1983 Predecessor Hermann Volk Other posts Cardinal-Priest of S. Leone I Orders Ordination 10 October 1963 by Julius August Döpfner Consecration 2 October 1983 by Hermann Volk Created Cardinal 21 February 2001 Rank Cardinal Priest Personal details Born...
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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 Christian... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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