Germany’s top Catholic bishop received an award from Germany’s Reform rabbinical program. On Monday, Cardinal Karl Lehmann received the annual Abraham Geiger Prize for his contribution to Catholic-Jewish understanding, according to a statement from the Abraham Geiger College, near Berlin.
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