"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'"
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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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- Mark Shea
Even now my five-year-old son is fastening on his white towel and singing “Dominus vobiscum – et cum spiritu tuo” because he wants to “say Mass”. In fact, he just asked me if I have any black towels because “at funerals I wear black.”
Update: The above five-year-old just heard my “confession.” I had to explain what to do. The penance came out “Say three Hail Marys while you use your laptop.” Obviously he requires more instruction . . .
ex ore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem!
Indeed. Which reminds me that the tiny children shown here:
http://www.knoxlatinmass.net/music/children/choir.jpg
sang the opening part of the Agnus Dei of Mozart’s Coronation Mass at the Knoxville solemn TLM previously discussed here:
https://wdtprs.com/2008/04/knoxville-tlm-success-and-eye-candy/
In their clear pure innocent voices this part — ordinarily a soprano solo — was moving as well as beautiful. So not only is Latin not too difficult for little children, neither is Mozart. (They were so radiant you could tell they loved it.)
I’m really proud of my sister, who has three children (please pray for her, she is expecting twins). She taught her oldest boy, who is five, the Pater Noster, and he recognises it when they attend the monthly extra.form Mass once a month.
“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings You have perfected praise.” Better put ETWN on the favorites button on the cable!
I regularly watch a friend’s son. He is twelve and autistic. I have a music phone and one day we listened to a few different songs together while bored. I was so surprised to find that he loves the Pange Lingua and recognized it from the Holy Thursday liturgy. Now he asks once in a while if I can put “the Holy Thursday music” on.
Incidentally, he is high functioning. Would someone with autism stlll be allowed holy orders?
“Ex ore infantum.” That is about how our family wound up at the indult parish when I was growing up: when I was about nine (I’m the oldest, and have several younger siblings) our family was displaced from our local parish when a new pastor came in and introduced some things our family wasn’t comfortable with. We parish-skipped for about a year. Each week, the parents would ask us kids which parish we wanted to attend on Sunday, and pretty soon it became unanimous: we wanted to go to the indult parish (which had English Novus Ordo ad orientem with the high altar and altar rail on the Sundays when there wasn’t a Tridentine Mass). Kids are drawn by reverence–and mystery!