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 outside the bloc.

His Latin motto State in fide "Stand firmly in the faith" is derived from 1 Corinthians 16:13. Karl Lehmann (born 16 May 1936) is a Cardinal of the Catholic Church Bishop of Mainz and former Chairman of the Conference of the German Bishops (German: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz) the highest representative post of the Catholic Church in Germany.

Karl Lehmann (born 16 May 1936) is a Cardinal of the Catholic Church Bishop of Mainz and former Chairman of the Conference of the German Bishops (German: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz) the highest representative post of the Catholic Church in Germany.