Papers in this journal on Bernard Lonergan by Brendan Carmody (2011) and on Karl Rahner by Sean Whittle (2014) have considered their significance for a philosophy of Catholic education. They were stars in the Catholic intellectual firmament in the mid-to-late twentieth century, acknowledged for their command of the longstanding Catholic traditions in which they were educated, but particularly renowned for transformative reworkings of those traditions in dialogue, sympathetic or critical as the case required, with the thought and culture of their secular contemporaries. In the twenty-first century world, their works continue to inspire many Catholic and Christian thinkers, but the novel achievements of the Carmody and Whittle papers have been to demonstrate their ongoing relevance for the field of educational philosophy. This paper builds on those achievements, in particular by demonstrating significant complementarity in what these truly great thinkers can together offer a philosophy of Catholic education fit for our times, thus combatting a tendency in Whittle's paper to champion Rahner over Lonergan.