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"Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric"
- Anonymous
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- Anna Arco
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- 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
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- 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.
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[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
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- Jesuit homosexualist James Martin to BuzzFeed
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- 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."
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Bourdon anticipation a la Andrei Rublev.
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Mario Bird: Interesting, the director of “Andrei Rublev” could have been inspired by Notre Dame and its bells.
The first attempt at that movie in Brezhnev-era Russia was banned, or maybe never went into production in the first place. In the late 1960s the director made revisions and had another go, thus “Andrei Rublev” was released in a censored version by Moscow in the 1970s.
In the 2005 novel “Sophia House” Pawel Tarnowski, bookshop owner in 1942 Warsaw, writes a play titled “Andrei Rublev” which appears in full in the novel (O’Brien probably was influenced by that movie). Later in “Sophia House” a patron of Pawel’s bookshop, an official from the Reich Culture Office (a German literature professor, National Socialist Party member and Army major) remarks to Pawel that his play would be “improved” if it were “modernized” (i.e. sexualized) and a subversive element removed (the Tatar invaders in Tarnowski’s play could be construed as Teutonic invaders).
Church bells date back to the early Middle Ages, maybe late Roman Empire, and were used to announce Mass, invasions, the Angelus and funerals. Monasteries in rural areas rang bells for lost travellers.
If I recall, in 1940-41 Britain, with the threat of Nazi invasion which included paratroopers at night, Church bells were silenced and were to ring only in the event of invasion.
John Donne’s For Whom the Bell Tolls:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.