"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
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"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
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- Mark Shea
This anecdote has been at Wikipedia for a long time. It has never been sourced, but it is funny. I thought of it seeing your cartoon, Father.
As a long time baseball fan, and a New Jersey resident, your comment about Joe “Ducky” Medwick made me smile.
On Pope Francis, Bishop Gracida has called for an investigation into the validity of his election. Do you have any thoughts on that, Father?
Just so folks know, the St. Louie Cardinals *do not* wear red uniform tops (at Spring Training they do).
This is a lot of fun none-the-less. :^)
Having said that – Go Cardinals beat the Bravos!
It is difficult to explain, while remaining charitable, any reason for the fact the ArchBp Chaput has not been named Cardinal already. For the last 100 years EVERY ArchBp of Philadelphia has been elevated to the college of cardinals. His writings are always worth reading and in interviews is is unfailingly both meek & strongly orthodox. Ii pray his resignation is not accepted & he becomes the 1st Native American cardinal.
Sadly, the reason Abp Chaput has not and will not be named a Cardinal is too well known.
The reason why is well known to us in his private and public presentations.
Another parting shot can be found here:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/10/god-country-notre-dame
So it continues in his warning:
Friends of the Bridegroom: For a Renewed Vision of Priestly Celibacy, written by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, was released Oct. 2. The English translation of the book was published by EWTN Publishing.
“I am not against the fact that there is a debate, but I think at this time of history and of the Church there is a need of reflection…” he said. “And so, my intervention is to substantiate the debate, to give something substantial to aid discernment.”
“I remain skeptical out of convictions and knowledge of the Catholic tradition in the Latin rite, so I think this has to be very much taken care of in the debate,” he continued, adding that he remains open to what will happen during the synod.
“That being said,” the cardinal continues, “new paths of the future will bear evangelical fruits if they are consistent with a complete proclamation of the Gospel, sine glosa, which does not sacrifice anything of the permanent values of the Christian tradition.”
He says in the book that “pastoral creativity” is needed in order to be attentive to cultural characteristics while addressing the lack of priests, “but we must first verify the quality of the witness of missionaries, who can effectively transmit the faith when it permeates their entire lives and unambiguously motivates their lifestyle and evangelizing activity.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-ouellet-defends-priestly-celibacy-ahead-of-amazon-synod-27576
I have not read the book, such as to further discern Cdl Ouellet’s motivations, intentions or sense of the faith in its ur-epochal journey under God’s historical intentions. But when he purportedly by this article’s reporting, mentions “pastoral” without mentioning doctrinal, it would seem the two have intentionally not yet met in his exegesis; unless we await his definition of “complete proclamation” of the Gospel, and then too, “quality,” “entire lives,” and ‘unambiguous motivation of lifestyle’; “evangelizing activity” perhaps being an interesting acquiescence notwithstanding its phrase-word choice.
Who I am I kidding; this is a whole lot of truck-driving hole created wreck of which intention is to exactly sacrifice permanent values of the CATHOLIC tradition.
To be clear that what follows the ‘so it continues in his warning’ is not Abp Chaput’s comments, but my segue to a cited view to that which is an exemplar of his warning.