Cardinal Kasper: Cardinals must find their place in the Catholic Church

Some fruits of the council were the possibility of celebrating Mass in the local language of the faithful and the promotion of greater participation of the laity in the Church.

Cardinal Kasper also commented in his presentation that with cardinals such as Augustin Bea, Julius Döpfner, Giovanni Battista Montini (Saint Paul VI) and Franz König “a new era in the history of the Church” had begun.

Today, the German cardinal concluded, it is necessary to return to the origins of the College of Cardinals: “Evangelization and Eucharistic communion celebrated together with the Bishop of Rome. Both, communion in the Word and communion in the sacrament, were given as a guiding principle by the Vatican Council II in its ecclesiology of communion,” he highlighted.