"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
Whew, glad you’re back, Fr. Z. For a while I was getting a message that said something like I didn’t have permission to access your site from my server. I thought I had been bad, or something!
It is heartening to know that lots of people are your followers. Keep fighting the good fight!
@wanda
Yes, I too was also getting at times the “forbidden ” page.
Can anyone think of another example of a problem such that merely reading about it at the most authoritative source contributes to the problem?
So glad to see you back, Father! I too was scouring my memory to see if I might have said something that got me banned. :-)
See if you can get it so next time the blog goes down there can be like a default message along the lines of, “WDTPRS is currently unavailable — go to confession”
disco: Good idea!
“WDTPRS is currently unavailable — go to confession”
Lol! I had actually just went to Confession when I discovered the blog was down.
A good thing I live in Europe and wasn’t awake when the thing was down, at ‘not permission to access’ I would have thought I was banned for excessive flippancy or something!
Years ago, I was in charge of multiple large computers. I set up a system so that when something critical happened, even at 3 o’clock in the morning, it would send me a text message so that I would be the first to know and could get things up and running again. Better to be proactive rather than have an irate production manager at one of the factories call me up hours later with his production lines down.
Among other things, it sent a critical error message if a hard drive was nearly exhausted.
But to be useful, this system must only send important messages, things that require immediate attention at all hours of day and night, otherwise I would be tempted to ignore them. This sort of thing is easy to implement on UNIX systems, but is a bit more complicated for Windows machines.
When the blog is down, you might put up the message:
“WDTPRS is down … go to confession and/or do penance.”
Confession isn’t always available when the blog is down. :-)
The alternate message is a great idea, but may be beyond your ability to control. The message which did appear smacks of “geek” thought with regard to clarity. And I say that with all humility, as a geek myself.
I wasn’t online at all yesterday, so I didn’t get any message that the blog was down, Father Z!
Having no trouble accessing it today, either, except that it seems to taking a little while longer to fully show on my iBook screen!