Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Piety and Death “It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious.” Alas, KL has made me take spiritual stock of myself again. I never used to …
Month: July 2010
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The Robotic Soul “There is little doubt that atheism, agnosticism, and the denial of the other world are partially responsible for the rapid technological development which gave us, apart …
BYCU
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Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Cash for Souls “Facing the choice of cash or liberty human beings will always choose the former because it spells safety.” How else can you explain the popularity of …
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Authority “Ochlocrats who never tire of accusing conservatives and Catholics of superstition, illogical traditionalism, and ‘unscientific’ procedure make an act of faith in the inner illumination of the individual …
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Medieval Man “Medieval man (like every deeply religious man) was eschatologically static. To him time was a relative conception because his center–God–stood at the same distance to the year …
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Egalitarianism in the Hierarchy “The nonchalantly polite but nevertheless free interclass manners in the Catholic world are the natural consequence of a conventional (nonideological) egalitarianism, based on the profound …
Something for Sunday Morning
“All our learning should consist of finding out what God has planned for us at each moment.” de Caussade, Abandonment.
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The Reading Illiterate “A reading-writing education as such has benefited nobody, has elated nobody spiritually or culturally. There is no need to go to the other extreme and to …
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The Herdist and the Romantic “Only the select can be closely confronted with the Absolute without taking flight. Only the saints, but not the ‘commonsensical’ herd, can and will …
Tuesday
Random Tuesday “President Barack Obama took aim at Republican lawmakers Monday, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington politics by blocking extended unemployment benefits for millions of …
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Body and Soul “Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by distance, mystery, and suffering.” Such thinking could trend into Cartesian dualism, which undermines the …