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- 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.”
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"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.
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[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
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- 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
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"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
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- Mark Shea
I had no ideas she was still with us! A great lady, all her interviews are charming.
I remember “We’ll Meet Again” from the end of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
I’ve recently been getting into the older singers such as Dame Clara Butt and Kathleen Ferrier (I’m more drawn to the contraltos who seem to be an endangered species bordering on to extinction), and in the process stumbled upon Vera Lynn in the process. I often wonder what it was like to hear these big voices live in person compared to the anything but digitally optimized recordings we have left behind.
She is one of the all time greats! Thank you for posting, Fr. Z.
HT to Pink Floyd.
“Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else here
Feel the way I do?”
Thanks Fr. Z, I also did not know Vera Lynn was alive. That Battle of Britain movie from the first clip is worth seeing.
In fifth-grade a classmate of mine also interested in WWII owned a remarkable collection of WWII memorabilia, including a small collection of Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn records such as “White Cliffs of Dover.” My buddy sometimes liked to play at full volume the song “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” That phrase is credited to a Navy chaplain (“sky-pilot” in WWII slang) on board a ship during the Sunday morning Pearl Harbor attack.
Vera Lynn can be heard singing We’ll Meet Again at the end of Dr Strangelove.
Happy Birthday Vera Lynn! God bless her. There is something about that era, we’ll never see the stellar human beings and citizens they were (are) again I fear. I have my father-in-law’s Glenn Miller albums, and they are treasured. 40’s music is great overall.
“There’ll be bluebirds over, the white cliffs of Dover,
tomorrow, just you wait and see…………..”
Yes, Kathleen10, I agree. The generation of Tolkien and Lewis (both WW1 combatants) were succeeded by a generation that equalled them in self-abnegating self-sacrifice. In fact, that generation’s war was THE crucial one. One could perhaps say WW1 was a tragic mistake but WW2 was necessary? Knowing how awful modern war would be, they nevertheless threw themselves in. The stiff upper lip is so often derided now but it carried them through. I’m thinking of my uncle, and godfather, R.A.M.C., dropped at Arnhem, captured (lucky not to be executed), escaped and was hidden by the Dutch Resistance before making his way back to Allied lines. The epitome of the stiff upper lip, in all the best ways, thorough gentleman. Thank God I had him, and so many of that generation, as examples.
I’ve always liked the way that in “We’ll Meet Again” “again” rhymes with “when” – quite correctly. (It doesn’t rhyme with train or rain.)
I’m partial to “You’ll Never Know How Much I Love You.”
Listen on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZtWNlCTc6o
kiwiinamerica says “There’ll be bluebirds over, the white cliffs of Dover,
tomorrow, just you wait and see…………..”
“They”ll be Love and Laughter and Peace every after – tomorrow when the world is free….”
Great voice… She inspired a generation, God bless and all who inspire.