"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
Father gave an excellent sermon on humility.
Our obligation is to go to Mass on Sunday, not receive communion on Sunday. We must receive worthily, so go to confession when needed.
Humility isn’t denying our talents, it’s recognizing that they are but gifts from God.
Father asked us to go outside before bed and contemplate the stars and how big everything is compared to our smallness and then recognize that God knows every detail about our tiny persons. What more could we need, he asked in the end?
A definition of a Christian…
Christ-I-a-n
Christ I Am Nothing
We put Christ 1st in our lives, but without Him we are zeros.
You can add a lot of zeros and still have nothing, but put the zeros behind 1 (Christ) and it multiplies quickly.
10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000.
the only thing we have that is not a gift from God is our sins.
i happened to be at an unusual parish yesterday due to a crisis in my wife’s health. was delighted that they have started to say the St. Michael prayer
Father C, 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time:
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
– Saint Augustine
We could say something similar about humility.
It is not, for example, self-effacement.
We think we know it when we see it, but what is it?
In the acclamation prior to the Gospel today:
“Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord, and learn from me for I am meek and humble of heart.”
Jesus knows exactly who He is, and He is perfectly humble.
A humble person does not focus on themselves but on others.
Jesus empties Himself, taking the form of a servant.
He washes the Apostles’ feet at the Last Supper.
Even as He is dying on the cross, He leads the good thief to Heaven.
Finally, Pope Francis say the best way to become humble is to be humiliated; to accept humiliation as Jesus does.
In the context of the Gospel, regarding folks jostling for the best seats, I said that if we have a good relationship with Jesus Christ, nothing else matters so much. Why impress others, why envy?