"Directing our critical glance first at ourselves and not at each other"

Both as individuals and as a community of believers, we all constantly require repentance and reform - encouraged and led by the Holy Spirit. "When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, said 'Repent,' He called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance." Thus reads the opening statement of Luther's 95 Theses from 1517, which triggered the Reformation movement. Although this thesis is anything but self-evident today, we Lutheran and Catholic Christians want to take it seriously by directing our critical glance first at ourselves and not at each other.

Source: Lutheran - Roman Catholic Commission on Unity - Conflict to Communion: Report of the Lutheran - Roman Catholic Commission on Unity, p. 7