"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 talked about light as an Advent theme. Relating how moved I was during our Solemn Mass by candlelight as I saw the sun begin to rise over the horizon. Our Lord tells us that He is the Light of the world, and that we are the light of the world. This light in us is sanctifying grace. It is an invitation, a sign of welcome to Our Lord like the window candles during Advent & Christmas. We loose the light through mortal sin, but also obscure it through venial sin. There is the need for frequent confession. We not only receive forgiveness, but the gifts and graces to grow in holiness that make that light in our soul brighter.
At our Byzantine Divine Liturgy the Gospel was of the woman that was bent over that Jesus cured on the Sabbath thereby incurring the wrath of the Pharisees. What was causing the woman to be bent over was the weight of her sin and symbolically we are all “bent over” to some degree. As Jesus points out you free your cattle on the Sabbath, why not free someone from their burden of sin on the Sabbath?
St. Augustine is famous for saying “our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee”. The Sabbath (Sunday for us) is a day to “rest” in the Lord, to let him free us from our burdens.
John the Baptist questioned Our Lord as to whether he was the Messiah, not out of ignorance (examples given), but as he knew his followers would soon no longer have him to lead them.
Father made a good appeal for going to confession. He tied the need for forgiveness to the need for the Messiah: both cases the situation is hopeless until God touches our lives.
Went to a Ukranian Greek Catholic Divine Liturgy. Father asked whether he was talking to a bunch of folks just sitting in the pews attempting to fulfill their Sunday obligation or if he was talking to Catholics that wanted to fulfill the gospel. He talked about being like a Christmas light and shining bright as a Catholic to act in a Christian manner and to invite others to the faith.