Tradition was focusing on physical virginity, and now it had to be treated within the well-defined terms of modern medicine. In retrospect, the Mitterer-Rahner dialogue appears to be based on sheer absurdity: Church Fathers vs. modern medicine discussing questions of gynecology! Such perspectives necessarily make the traditional witnesses, biblical or patristic, appear naïve and painfully outdated. It gave the impression that, when speaking of Mary’s “virginal motherhood,” the Church Fathers promoted