"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
Well put and a sentiment shared I’m sure by most who consult this rich resource every day.
And thank you for your perseverance with the blog. We all need one another in these times. Know of my prayers and remembrance in the Holy Sacrifice.
Yes, it is wise to remain positive. What is happening in the Church these past few years is deja vu all over again for me. I was received into the Church in 1961. The craziness that followed Vatican II was too much for me and I dropped out for 20 years until I realized the error of my ways. I won’t make the same mistake this time. I find strength in the Eucharist and the Rosary.
Hear hear. It helps to be reminded that the Faith hasn’t changed, no matter who’s trying to play games with it. Don’t know if there’s yet much besides macaroni in my spine but I’m feeling a good bit more sanity in my head thanks to Father’s encouragement.
It helps a great deal, Fr. Z. And this blog walks that fine line between militancy and reason; and between a spirit of daring and that of suitable reticence.
Modernism is a most pernicious heresy, and since it operates under the radar always, it needs frequent calling out, as is done here. Otherwise Modernism continues to seep and to fester unseen, where it can do its worst damage. (I’ve heard Modernism defined as essentially a heresy that embraces the idea that all religious truth is more or less man-made, and subject therefore to the exigencies of time and place.
That according to Modernism, sin, virtue, Heaven, Hell, and Judgment ought to have little to no weight in our thinking; that all religion should have as its aim uniting all men and women in the effort to create a just and fully egalitarian society which disturbs the ecosystem as little as possible. All is for this life, in other words.
Whereas authentic Catholicism holds that Catholic religious truth is a part of God’s creation, and may be known to man either by his observing the laws of nature, or by the operation of reason, or by Revelation, or by two or all of these. And that this life matters, indeed, but that we are all here to win Heaven for ourselves and for our neighbor, and all human endeavor – government, culture, family life, commerce, the use of natural resources, the arts, the sciences, all – should be oriented toward the end of as many souls as possible attaining the joys of Heaven.)
exspecta dominum, viriliter age : et confortetur cor tuum, et sustine Dominum
(introitus, feria iii post Dominicam de Passione ; Ps 26, 14). A good programme.
The LXX’s ???????? [andrizou] is, if anything, stronger, the form denoting action : ‘act the man’ ; in comparison to the factitive ?????? [androô], ‘become a man’.