"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
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Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
- America Magazine
RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
-Austen Ivereigh on
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[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."
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How about some ‘change we really can believe in???” I humbly nominate Father Z for the post!
As long as the nominee is an unreconstructed ossified manualist…
I nominate Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, as I always do, for any/all Vatican offices, not least of all the Holy See.
Let us pray that either Cardinal Ranjith or Cardinal Burke may receive this honour…I’ll start with 5 decades of the rosary…God bless.
Joseph Cardinal Fessio
Bernard Fellay.
Just kidding.
Slattery or Ranjith would be good!
Of course, Fr. Z. always opts out, but what about His Hermeneuticalness??
@RichR:
“Bernard Fellay.
Just kidding.”
LOL!
From the 1600’s until 1965, the Roman Pontiff was, ex officio, the Prefect of the CDF. Pius XII acted as his own Secretary of State.
@Tim Ferguson “Joseph Cardinal Fessio”
LOL! That’s a good one!
Centristian and RichR:
“Bernard Cardinal Fellay”
At least it would amusing to see some of the most rabid SSPX types going into apoplexy accusing Bp. Fellay of having capitulated to the “conciliar Church”.
Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I’ve heard he is very pro-life, but is Chuck Norris Catholic? That seems to be rather important when it comes to naming Prefects of the CDF.
“Bernard Cardinal Fellay”
Ahhhhhh!!!!!
I suppose it’s better than “Phyllis Cardinal Zagano”.
Salvatore Cardinal Cordileone
Pope Pius XII was also his own secretary of state.
He was a truly great pope, who knew that many around him could not be trusted.
And then he died.
Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, O.P.
So much has transpired since the appointment of Cardinal Levada, Pope Benedict’s prima creatura. It is interesting that Cardinal Schonborn is no longer mentioned.
Ray Cardinal Blake
Would a perfect prefect be pluprefect?
Jean-Louis Bruguès
or Chuck Norris.
“Joseph Cardinal Fessio’
Oooo, that would be cool! That has a ‘ring’ to it!
LOL about ‘Bernard Cardinal Fellay’-yeah, Henry Edwards, I’m sure that some of more extreme SSPXers WOULD go into a apoplectic fit if this happened!
Is there any deadline on selecting candidates?
I should think that the trouble with having a Pope as Prefect is that the Prefecture becomes titular and day-to-day authority transfers to the secretary and lower staff. Popes surely don’t have time to manage all the day-to-day activities of a given dicastery; if they did, there would have been no need to spin it off in the first place. Consequently, the practical authority of staff grows in a way that it couldn’t if overseen by someone on the job full time.
Moreover, wouldn’t it send a troubling signal? As I understand it, the entire curia is simply an administrative apparatus for the Holy See (to adapt Ponzi v. Fessenden’s image, the prefects are the hands of the Pope so far as their competencies are concerned), but if the Pope chooses to have a more direct relationship with one discastery by being its prefect, that could be spun as implying that the dicasteries that are not headed personally by the Pope have a different relationship to the See of Peter than does the one that is.
Seems to me that there’s a death of (English-language) writing on the roles and authorities of the curia. I’ve found two, maybe three books that focus on it.