"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" -
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- 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
We have arrived at the final days of Shrovetide. “Shrove” is from “shrive”, “to absolve a penitent”.
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As the good Fr Hunwicke has pointed out, Saturday was “Egg Saturday”. Yes, there was a time when all Catholics were vegan for forty days.
@pjm88:
Vegan plus fish.
The Polish are even more on top of things with Fat Thursday.
MMmmmmmmmmmm ….. bacon.
I’m so happy not to be a Jew or Moslem!
Mmmmmmmmmmmm ….. bacon!
May I make a suggestion? Go over to YouTube and search for “bacon fraze”. The Townsends channel has lots of amazing 18th century recipes.
Close but no cigar. Pork chops tonight. Bacon and eggs tomorrow.
A Keto diet dream today. Lent will be tough, but our Lord didn’t eat ANYTHING, so as my dearly departed Mum used to say: “Offer it up!”
MLPA, Make Lent Penitential Again. A call for Catholics to voluntarily take up Medieval discipline in Lent: no food before 3pm, no meat, eggs, dairy.
You know, this is where the church really dropped the ball. As a young person whose family had no family traditions other than the main cultural ones, this was the kind of thing that drew me to Catholicism in the first place. It had meaning, and there was a consistency and order, some discipline to it. People don’t realize that young people who may have not much to anchor them in life crave such things, they provide structure and something to orient your life around, something to belong to. When they took away these traditional practices they eliminated the very thing crave. How on earth could they not understand discipline and tradition are what children and young people most need, and what will help keep them in the church.
We took our SSPX priest out for breakfast this morning. He gleefully ordered the pancakes and bacon, citing the tradition described above. It was great seeing him enjoy himself.
Fellow laics: It’ll make your day if you do something that puts a smile on a priest’s face.
Just remember, medieval penitence for Lent also included things like sometimes forbidding pregnant or nursing women to fast; and allowing the poor to eat whatever they could get, at any time of day.
Aim high, train hard, but do not do anything stupid. Be crazy devout, but with prudence!
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