"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.
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- Mark Shea
Perhaps this calls for a viewing of “The Scarlet and the Black”
A word about the music to “Victory at Sea”, which Fr. Z correctly notes is great music. Composed by the incomparable Richard Rodgers (of Hammerstein fame), it was commissioned by NBC for the early 50s TV documentary. Many sophisticated orchestras entertain audiences with the “Victory at Sea” suite. One sample here by the Houston Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2P0CPFuXKA.
The most notable are “Under the Southern Cross” made a Perry Como hit under the title “No Other Love Have I” and the “Guadalcanal March”. To merely listen to this is edifying but even more so after watching the documentary to see the context of the footage that the music portrays. I get teary every time I watch those GIs come down the gangplanks into the arms of their families.
Another word: there is a long, long version of VAS on the internet in many handy segments, but also a shorter 90 minute one, with a narration from the superb Alexander Scourby.
“The Scarlet and the Black,” good choice Chuck 4247. For a book may I suggest “The Myth of Hitler’s Pope” by Rabbi David Dalin.
In 1945 the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Anton Zoller, and his family converted to the Catholic faith. Zoller took the name Eugenia Maria in honor of Pius XII who saved many Jews by, for example, hiding them at Castel Gondolfo.
As the first video indicates the liberation of Rome was delayed until June 1944 due to a tactical error made during the January 1944 landing at Anzio. Rather than move quickly off the beaches and seize the Alban Hills just south of Rome, the landing force dug in a few miles inland. When they advanced on the Alban Hills a week later it was too late, the Nazis had fortified the Alban Hills, brought up artillery, and pounded the Anzio beachhead for the next four months.
Today, the Alban Hills is a popular tourist destination with its lakes, quaint villages, ruins of Emperor Domitian’s palace, and fine cuisine. Though, the aradia and stregheria offered by some at several establishments are not to be recommended. The Alban Hills’ Feriae Latinae religious festival likely pre-dates the founding of Rome.
Various artists have visited the Alban Hills such as the landscape painter Charles Coleman, Clara Louisa Wells, and Goethe.