"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."-
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Would you be tickled or affronted if your blog were to win “Snarkiest Catholic Blog?” I think you at least deserve a nomination. I also think Sister Mary Martha does, as well.
Well… “Snarkiest” might be appropriate. However, it seems to me that these awards intend to offset (and probably satirize) somewhat the way bigger Catholic blogs dominate the other awards. Pretty clever, really.
Why do Catholic priests insist on promulgating the use of offensive vernacular slang?(Bat S**t crazy award) Priests only decrease their credibility when they promote “efforts of feeble minds to forcibly express themselves.” Scandalous!
eyeclinic: Why do people not actually read what is written?
Eyeclinic, I believe Father was just copying and pasting information from the other blog.
I don’t actively ask to be nominated for the Big Catholic Blogger Awards, so maybe I’ll do so for this one. ;)
God bless you, Father.
…this feeble minded blogger is bat $^*& crazy. Growl, spit, hiss.
love, Ms. Czar Kazim.
Actually, I’d like a bit more clarity of expression in Biblical translations when the original languages mention #2. “Dung” and “excrement” are okay, but I had no clue what “filth” was often referring to.
I want to share Father Z’s concern (somewhat more than he might, perhaps), regarding the dominance of a few in the CBAs over the years. Most winners for the first few years already had established reputations in the Catholic print media. As such, awards like this would be little more than popularity contests, as opposed to their merits in this particular medium. That has begun to change; a little bit last year, more so this year.
Yes, it is true that the good Father “stole the show” this year, but he has done a remarkable job in educating the general population on the state of Catholic worship, and efforts by Rome to restore the sacred, during a very eventful year for that particular issue. He played a really big part, in what has been a really big deal.
The “Cannonball Awards,” comic relief aside, have the effect of alerting the Catholic blog-reading public to weblogs that would otherwise be unnoticed. As to the use of an expletive for one category, I must confess I’ve been known to cuss like a sailor, but I am generally loathe to write like one. The former is spontaneous, and if unrecorded, its effects tend to subside. The latter has a way of sustaining its presence, to an extent that the author may not intend.
This line of reasoning is not the result of a narrow mind. Quite the opposite, I should hope.