By Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.
Karl Rahner, S.J. (R) with Bishop Patrick Ahern (L) on a visit to America Magazine in the 1970s.
This interview was originally published in America on March 10, 1979.
America: Father Rahner, you've had 75 years of human experience now. Would you be able to tell us what the major turning points in your life have been?
Father Rahner: I don't know whether I've had major turning points in my life, or whether the brook or river of my life has always gone more or less in the same direction, so that now the time has gradually come for this river of time to flow into the sea of eternity. You know, I grew up in a Catholic family. It was a family with seven children, middle-class, and on my mother's side, but also on my father's. Catholic as a matter of course, without being at all sanctimonious. After the "Abitur" which comes at the end of German secondary education, I entered the Society of Jesus at 18. There I did my studies and have had my life's work.
Karl Rahner, S.J. (R) with Bishop Patrick Ahern (L) on a visit to America Magazine in the 1970s.
America: Father Rahner, you've had 75 years of human experience now. Would you be able to tell us what the major turning points in your life have been?
Father Rahner: I don't know whether I've had major turning points in my life, or whether the brook or river of my life has always gone more or less in the same direction, so that now the time has gradually come for this river of time to flow into the sea of eternity. You know, I grew up in a Catholic family. It was a family with seven children, middle-class, and on my mother's side, but also on my father's. Catholic as a matter of course, without being at all sanctimonious. After the "Abitur" which comes at the end of German secondary education, I entered the Society of Jesus at 18. There I did my studies and have had my life's work.
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