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Eric Scheske

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 1300 B.C. as to the year A.D. 1300." The medieval man appeals to me, especially

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 knowledge that our final status--on the other side of the grave--will be basically different from our present one.

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 believe that the knowledge of the three R's is basically destructive, but nothing is more stupid or

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 surrender to the 'Holy Folly of the Cross.' For this reason we have such hatred on the

Tuesday

Random Tuesday [http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307617] [http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307617] "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 out of work Americans." I haven'

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 sacramental nature of existence, but it's always important to reassert that the soul and body are not

Monday

Oil to Ollie BP in the Gulf. Now two pipelines explode in China [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1295466/Huge-burns-15-hours-China-TWO-oil-pipelines-explode.html] . You'd think we'd see more upward movement in USO [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/

Something for Sunday Morning

“Love to pray–and feel often during the day the need for prayer and take the trouble to pray.” Mother Teresa

BYCU

Giving beer drinkers everywhere a bad name: An Arizona woman, who allegedly damaged her boyfriend's car with a dog leash, was naked and holding a beer when she opened the door of her home to police [http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2010/07/15/naked-woman-with-beer-