"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
A tip of the biretta to Rogueclassicism for the reminder that today is the anniversary of the dedication of the Ara Pacis in Rome in 13 BC.
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It’s not in J. Caesar’s clipped, Hemingway style, but it works. If you want your res gestae to improve your marca (in commercial terms), you need to make it easy for the clientele to understand.
“When I was nineteen, I organized an army with private leadership and expense, with which I delivered to liberty a nation oppressed by a special interest.”
As evidence of “clipped” style, note that Divus Augustus’ ghost writer could have used et…et in the first clause, but did not. Nest, watch the parallells, exercitum…per quem…rem publicam…oppressam…libertatem, and of course, comparavi…vindicavi.
Pax Romana was good for business throughout the Empire. Think about the lost potential farm and trading productivity, as well as loss of life, in the generations of civil war which brought down the Republic.
Salutationes omnibus.
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One of the things that sprang to mind on (belatedly) reading this, was what Shakespeare made of it (or let Octavius Caesar – in Antony and Cleopatra IV.vi): “The time of universal peace is near. / Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nook’d world / Shall bear the olive freely.”
Another was what, in less than a century after 13 B.C., Tacitus, in his Agricola, quotes Calgacus, Chieftain of the Caledonian confederacy as saying: “ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant”!