"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" -
HERE
- 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
Is it possible that this was a sort of Freudian-slip reference to the late Rev. Canaan Banana, Methodist minister and former President of Zimbabwe? Cursory Googling brought up the following, from the Manchester Guardian’s 2003 obituary of Rev. Banana:
“Though soft-spoken, he made his mark in liberation theology with a book entitled The Gospel According To The Ghetto, and his version of the Lord’s Prayer, which included the lines “Teach us to demand our share of the gold/ And forgive us our docility.””
Sometimes real life really is stranger than fiction.
wow, kneeling to the Ayatollah?
Kind of ironic, isn’t it?
Yep, this is a ‘banana’, all right….
Ceci n’est pas une banane.
Maybe Bugnini was known in the Lodge as Banana.
BTW, some years ago I knew a priest in the Vatican diplomatic corps who had been posted in Iran. He said that Bugnini had built a traditional chapel there–with the altar was against the wall.
robtbrown, it’s encouraging that Bugnini understood the rubrics of the Missale he created.
Though it would have taken much grace, and courage, I would like to think I would have stood and not kneeled before such a maniac.
The “B” word evokes such feelings it can truly ruin one’s day…
Kneeling to the Ayatollah? That is just so….what would the martyrs think?
Oriana Fallaci had a lot more courage. She ditched the chador they gave her while interviewing the Ayatollah. I can’t imagine her ever kneeling to him. And she was a self-proclaimed atheist (although surely she must have just been confused. God is merciful.)
Buon’anima.
Can we all pray that we never bow to those who are not true representatives of Christ? The day may come when we are in Oriana Fallaci’s place. She was a great woman and I pray for her. As to Bugnini, who knows what he was thinking. Perhaps, let us give him the benefit of the doubt, he was protecting the Catholics in Iran, who are still persecuted and ignored by the media. As to his liturgical destruction, that is another story…