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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 utility.

Karl Lehmann

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Karl Lehmann
Age: 81 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 16
Died: 2018
Died: March 11
Catholic Priest
University Teacher
Karl Cardinal Lehmann
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