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. (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 and cultural utility.

Karl Lehmann

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