"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
The Honus Wagner card brings back great memories from the baseball card craze of the early 1990s. Many a night, I hoped to discover a long forgotten hoard of cards in a wall panel.
The Crosier reminds me of one shown in Fr Collin’s “The Vatican” It belonged to Cardinal Karl August von Reisach. It has a total ivory crook with inlayed with sapphires and rubies. Around the knob of the staff are carved ivory figures of Saints Benno, Sebastian, Rupert and Corbinian.
Who is the young lady?
Jack,
Probably nobody knows her name or who she was.
The Fayum mummy portraits (so called because most of them were discovered in the necropolis at Fayum, south of Cairo) were highly collectible and were discovered long before the advent of scientific archaeology. As a result, the overwhelming majority were separated from their context (as well as the mummy itself and any inscription thereon) and sold on the art market many, many years ago.
Unless she was one of the 70-odd mummies excavated right around the turn of the century by British archaeologist Flinders Petrie, in which case the Met may have her name. But Petrie donated most of those to British museums and colleges. It really is a shame because the original inscriptions not only gave the names of the deceased, but in many cases their family and their rank and occupation. Most of them were well-to-do government officials, merchants, bankers, etc. of the Graeco-Roman community at Fayum.
It’s interesting that contemporary literature reflects a strong tradition of panel portraiture that tracked the Roman custom of portrait busts, but very few have survived except the Fayum panels, which were perfectly preserved in the desert climate.
What cool art objects you found, Father Z!
I’d love to get to the Met someday!