Schism is Worse than Heresy

Karl Rahner on the sin of polarization in the church

In his The Shape of the Church to Come (published in 1974), Karl Rahner calls out the polarization in the German churches of his day. What he says describes our situation too. And he’s right: such polarization is not only stupid and scandalous but also sinful:

There have always been schools, tendencies, and—if you like—parties, and so on, in the Chu…