Somebody actualy let Hans Kung speak at a church event????
Oh, my.
I've never thought Lehmann was genuinely "conservative." Perhaps he is conservative in the German sense, which seems to be pretty broad. Also, I believe he covered up for or protected some priests (and possibly a fellow bishop) who were involved in a homosexual/youth molestation scandal a few years back. At least Kasper the not-so-friendly Ghost is honest about being a raving liberal.
"It is not the first time that Meisner has criticised Lehmann. The Kirchentag, the first ecumenical church assembly organised by Lehmann in Berlin in May 2003, prompted Meisner to complain of “disorientation” and “confusion of belief”."
Remember Lehmann is the guy who ignored several papal admonitions to discontinue aiding German women to abort their babies. Given the liberal heretics currently crowding the sacred college of cardinals (the likes of Meisner aside), there is every chance that Lehmann could be the next pope. Heaven forbid that Kung's wish for a Pope John XXIV becomes reality.
Gaillot had, said Cardinal Meisner, “called, to applause, for a new kind of priesthood, independent of gender and only for a limited time”.