Diogenes, listing the many woes which constitute “The Void” in the Church’s life, pays tribute to Karl Rahner’s contribution:
Or again, think of the Church’s missionary outreach to the unevangelized: once a prime concern for Catholics everywhere, now emptied of urgency by the sentimentalism that surrounds the Anonymous Christian and his exotic spiritualities. Missionaries return to give us glad news of wells dug or dances learned, rarely of pagans baptised.
