"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios"
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Fr. John Hunwicke
"Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric"
- Anonymous
"Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who has never shied from picking fights with priests, bishops or cardinals when liturgical abuses are concerned."
- Kractivism
"Father John Zuhlsdorf is a crank"
"Father Zuhlsdorf drives me crazy"
"the hate-filled Father John Zuhlsford" [sic]
"Father John Zuhlsdorf, the right wing priest who has a penchant for referring to NCR as the 'fishwrap'"
"Zuhlsdorf is an eccentric with no real consequences" -
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- Michael Sean Winters
"Fr Z is a true phenomenon of the information age: a power blogger and a priest."
- Anna Arco
“Given that Rorate Coeli and Shea are mad at Fr. Z, I think it proves Fr. Z knows what he is doing and he is right.”
- Comment
"Let me be clear. Fr. Z is a shock jock, mostly. His readership is vast and touchy. They like to be provoked and react with speed and fury."
- Sam Rocha
"Father Z’s Blog is a bright star on a cloudy night."
- Comment
"A cross between Kung Fu Panda and Wolverine."
- Anonymous
Fr. Z is officially a hybrid of Gandalf and Obi-Wan XD
- Comment
Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
- America Magazine
RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
-Austen Ivereigh on
Twitter
[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
“For me the saddest thing about Father Z’s blog is how cruel it is.... It’s astonishing to me that a priest could traffic in such cruelty and hatred.”
- Jesuit homosexualist James Martin to BuzzFeed
"Fr. Z's is one of the more cheerful blogs out there and he is careful about keeping the crazies out of his commboxes"
- Paul in comment at
1 Peter 5
"I am a Roman Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
I am a TLM-going Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
And I am in a state of grace today, in no small part, because of your blog."
- Tom in
comment
"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
Reader comment.
"Fr. Z disgraces his priesthood as a grifter, a liar, and a bully. -
- Mark Shea
I can also imagine the return of the three strikes to the breast.
I do hope that priests will take the opportunity to implement Sacramentum Caritatis on the same day the new translation is introduced. For pastoral reasons of course.
This may be the Renovation I am most looking forward to.
It is such a powerful statement to the Church of I’m-Okay-You’re-Okay-God-Might-Be-Okay-It-He’d-Get-With-the-Program-and-Quit-Being-All–Judgemental-and-In-My-Face-and-All.
(Save the Litrugy, Save the World!)
Hurray! I am super excited about this one.
Fantastic… except NONE of our priests at my home parish use the confiteor as part of the penitential rite. I am not sure why. Perhaps the pastor has some issue with using it. It is on my list of “things to ask the pastor about.” The list is rather long, and the pastor is always busy, so working my way through the list is taking longer than one might think.
This would be a fantastic change in translation, regardless of whether or not I will every pray it in my parish.
Best,
I have to echo Andrew’s statement about the confiteor. At my parish, it has been at least a year since that form of the penitential rite has been used. A sung version of Option “C” is almost always used.
In my area, where I attend Mass frequently at several different parishes, it’s been a while — maybe before Lent — since I recall hearing any penitential rite other than the Confiteor. Hmm … I wonder whether this has anything to do with ours (which is never listed under Fr. Z’s “Where Are You?”) being named the #1 diocese in a statistical ranking of U.S. dioceses. Seriously, it hasn’t always been this way, and I wonder the increasing use of the confiteor (here and elsewhere?) may be a straw in the healthy Benedictine wind that’s blowing.
At my school, we always use the Confiteor. God bless the Fathers of Mercy.
Father: One question: why “Brothers and Sisters”? When our liturgy director in the chancery explained that we should stand from the Orate, Fratres through the end of the Communion Rite (with brief kneeling interruptions) I wanted to point out that the prayer is almost never prayed that way, so how could we be expected to be obedient to new orders to stand.
Chris Garton-Zavesky writes:
One question: why “Brothers and Sisters�
Because “brethren” isn’t inclusive enough.
Surely, you jest? (Hopefully?)