/lit/ - Literature

>>15295621
I don't know, my repeated impression of Burke is that he's just a really nice guy. Have you ever heard him talk? He sounds like he comes from Minnesota and he is just about as pleasant in conversation. His aggression is confined to his writing.

Regarding his dress, one thing I think he does have is a flair for the dramatic, and this is something that I think badly needs to be recovered in the Church. The Church's aesthetics aren't just some fun little game, they have immense power, they're striking and vibrant, and they are so precisely because their ultimate goal is to lead the mind and the soul to God. All the incense, all the gold, all the hymns and the organ music, it doesn't exist for its own sake--it's to cause people sitting and kneeling at Mass to feel the power, the grandeur, the glory, the majesty, and the goodness and love of God, to be transported, in a halting and incomplete sense, to the realms of Heaven, and to the joys of Paradise. The Church's aesthetics are meant to echo Heaven on Earth, to be a dim shadow, a faint reflection, of Heaven's power, majesty, grandeur, and beauty. I feel like there's a ton of modern members of the hierarchy that don't understand this. But Burke does, and bless him for it.