Karl Rahner’s Girlfriend

Catholic Family News ^ | May 2004 | John Vennari

[RobbyS]

Ratzinger deviated from Rahner sometime around 1975.

[RobbyS]

It is not required of Catholics that they believe private revelations. Montanism was based of just such a thing. They can be beguiling: Tertullian succumbed to the apparent purity of life of the Montanists.

[narses]

Source:

http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A003rcOggiFamily.htm

[sinkspur]

This is not Karol Wojtyla, narses. Don't believe the foolishness.

[narses]

I have no opinion, you claim it is not, have you actual evidence? (Recalling your claims regarding the Bless. Anne Catherine Emerich, you understand why I take your proclamations with a grain of salt.)

[sinkspur]

I have no opinion, you claim it is not, have you actual evidence?

No episcopal ring. No episcopal ring.

A Polish cardinal, in 1975, is not going to go out without his ring, nor would he risk being photgraphed in such a casual position, by a bunch of goombah papparazzi.

[Land of the Irish]

No it's not. No episcopal ring.

Then where is it?

[TradicalRC]

In "union" with Rome?

Well yeah! It's not like she was a member of the SSPX or anything. Get a grip.

[sinkspur]

Photos are inconclusive.

[Land of the Irish]

Here's another one. Shall I continue

[sinkspur]

A picture of the Pope. Keep posting pictures of the Pope.

Pictures of the Pope are a good thing.

[Aliska]

Even if it were a picture of the pope, I don't see anything wrong it. In a way, I wish it were a photo of the pope. Makes him look human. He could be on a little outing with a niece or something. In our times, we tend to read scandal into everything. It wasn't always that way. There were scandals, but there was innocence as well.

[Land of the Irish]

Pictures of the Pope are a good thing.

To paraphrase the little old Wendy's lady, Where's the beef ring?

[sinkspur]

I see it. Can't you?

[Aliska]

Maybe it isn't all true. Who knows?

If it is true, he sounds seriously immature, which one might expect of a man who didn't interact with women other than in very formal ways and controlled circumstances. She sounds like she is on some kind of ego/power trip who plays the men in her life against one another for her own amusement.

I've no doubt that platonic relationships have existed throughout church history. St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross are a good example. Surely you wouldn't pick on them. Their correspondence stayed more on a spiritual plane but that wouldn't necessarily conceal worldly feelings and emotions fueling it.

[Aliska]

I don't see anything wrong with those pictures. What should I be seeing? A silly old man or worse? I see a man whose religion hasn't killed the human warmth in his soul. Maybe privately he is as cold as a fish. How can any of us really know?

[Dajjal]

A Critical Examination of the Theology of Karl Rahner, S.J.
by Robert C. McCarthy

An excellent read.

[Cvengr]

and to think I thought this was Carl Rahner's girlfriend.

[johnb2004]

So true!!!!!!!

[eastsider]

Tertullian succumbed to the apparent purity of life of the Montanists.

For Tertullian, rigorism seems to have been more a crutch for a wounded ego than a true conviction. JMO.