"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
I assume he was ordained for diocese of Raleigh or did he move to d. of Arlington where Bishop Burbidge is now the ordinary?
That is wonderful news, praise God! I used to follow his blog until it stopped, and I had wondered how he is doing now. Thank you, Father Z, for letting us know. Father Johnson, pray for us too!
Fr. Johnson was indeed ordained for the Diocese of Raleigh. He will celebrate his first public TLM on Sunday, 15 January at noon at Sacred Heart Church in Dunn, NC. (His First Mass is tomorrow, NO, at the church where he was ordained, St. Catherine of Siena in Wake Forest [the town not the university]).
God is infinitely good, and this is just one small example.
Thank you Lord!! We serve the true and living God who answers prayer!!!
Praise be to God!! Such great news!
He looks as if he need something on his head. Perhaps a biretta?
Makes me happy and grateful to see this!
Deo gratias!
Your photo of this joyous event is marred by one thing: the ordaining bishop is in mitra simplex. There seems to be a growing trend of bishops to wear this unsuitably, no doubt part of the false simplicity/humility mania in the Church. Some of the greatest saints who were prelates (eg Borromeo) always wore the “full fig”, aware that it expressed the office and honoured it, not the man.
Thanks be to God!
Father Johnson is a priest for the Diocese of Raleigh…..watch for more good news next week..
The Ordination was awesome. First blessings cherished by my wife and I. Bishop Burbidge came down from Arlington to Ordain Father Johnson for the Diocese of Raleigh. “Do you promise respect and obedience to the Ordinary?” instead of (to me and my successors). During comments after the Ordination Bishop Burbidge shared that he did consider sticking with “me and my successors” and wondered if that would have made Father Johnson a Priest for the Diocese of Arlington.
Father Johnson is a very holy man and has already done good work for the kingdom. His life is a miracle and even with our ongoing prayers we always wondered if he would make it to this day. Thanks be to God for the gifts of this vocation… and all vocations.
Beautiful. Laus Deo. It has been a long and arduous road for Fr. Johnson, but Our Lady obtained this special grace for him.
Tears of Joy! Thank you Father for this post. I have been praying for him daily to Our Lady of Good Help the only approved apparition of Our Lady in the Diocese of Green Bay Wisconsin. Thank you Bishop David Ricken! https://www.shrineofourladyofgoodhelp.com/prayer/ Will continue to ask Our Lady of Good Help for his continued health.
Bishop Burbidge is an excellent bishop. He inherited the Diocese of Raleigh around 2005, and only had about six seminarians. Within a few years, that number was up to twenty, and Bishop Burbidge also began sending seminarians to his alma mater, St. Charles Borromeo, where he had once been rector when he was the Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia. Bishop Burbidge was also not afraid to be a shepherd in Raleigh, and visited quite a few parishes, reviewed programs, and got his hands dirty. IMHO, more bishops need to be rolling up their sleeves and following the example of Bishop Burbidge.
God Bless Fr. Phillip Johnson – one of many formed under Bishop Burbidge.
Arlington, Virginia is definitely getting a jewel (and several good priests in Arlington know him, either as a seminary classmate or as a rector), and the new bishop in Raleigh will definitely have big shoes to fill.
Congratulations Fr. Johnson, Deo Gratias.