"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios"
-
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.
-
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
I know for a fact that there is a team in the Holy See Press office that is responsible for the twitter account. Fr. Tom Rosica does a lot of the English Language stuff as he is the official English Language Spokesman
Etiam infirmum cum gratia familia fere curat, noli timere infirmitatem.
Even if you take the Spanish as original, ultro doesn’t seem idiomatic Latin; that’s why I suggested cum gratia. Gratia is , of course, always in our religious context.
We’ll need to send our scholar to Latin prose composition. That term I was sent to work on the AAS.
Salutationes omnibus..
Literal: “At home, we spontaneously care for the weaker ones. Why should you fear the feeble or frail of the human race?” (Not totally sure about this, since I can’t figure out why extimescatis is subjunctive.)
Smoother: “At home, you spontaneously care for the weak. Why do you fear to care for the feeble and frail in the world?”
WesleyD:
“I can’t figure out why extimescatis is subjunctive”
Because “ne + subjenctive” is a form of imperative.
Ne dicas – don’t say! Ne audias – don’t hear. Ne timeas – don’t be afraid.
Ne timeas, Zacharia, quoniam exaudita est deprecatio tua … (Lc Cpt I)
On the fly, ad fontes…
Re linguae latinae
Syntax: awk. Put domi in first position, for sense and for balance, but I don’t love “ultro,” which is frigid.
It’s ALL wordy, too, most un-Latiniate, even as the language is incomplete: if we stop with warning the faithful off of fearing, it sounds like those outside of the home had been mistaken for Dr. Frankenstein’s monsters: how about not fearing to love or care for them????
Ne to govern the subjunctive takes, in classical Latin, the perfect subjunctive: Tom’s imperative is more natural, and of course also Catholic sounding, soundly Catholic.
But wait, surely the Latin should NOT read ne or neve (a collocation, as best I can make out, from archaic Latin), but nec nec, one for each accusative, Classical Latin. Then the subjunctive becomes a jussive: may you fear neither x nor y.
The author has thought nice thoughts, but perhaps not read much Latin literature. The Vatican has done better.
I don’t know whether Popes should tweet.
I do think, though, that they should never let anyone else tweet in their name without at least reading through the message in person and checking it for orthodoxy (which in an ideal world if it comes from the Pope’s trusted co-workers is no problem) and also, if only for a millisecond, whether they personally would like to set off this tweet at that moment.
@palladio:
tibi gratias persolvo.
@Tom in NY: et cum….
I’m not sure why anyone should tweet, yet alone the Pope.
For today, we read:
Maximi apud nos est ponderis Eucharistia ad vivendum, quia Iesus non tantum attingere nos per eam, sed etiam replere nos gratia sua cupit.
The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJBWewQb4o