"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
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him.
Amen.
Oh dear! I am at least glad that his brother could be with him.
In paradisum deducant te Angeli.
In Paradisum – Requiem – Faure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYt-QA9vT0
Two of them look a lot like their father. Only the Pope Emeritus looks a lot like his mother.
I hope being the last living Ratzinger doesn’t bring the former Holy Father to his grave any earlier… =-\ No one will say a Mass for Msgr. Georg Ratzinger with more fervor, no?
Keep praying for Georg and his very holy family. What parents to have raised such devout children! I heartily recommend his book My Brother, the Pope. It is full of charming anecdotes, like little Joseph’s love for a teddy bear in their local town window. Only such a brother could tell these stories.
I’m so sorry for Pope Benedict’s loss. What a beautiful family….
As an older mom, I’m wondering, were the Ratzinger’s older when they married?
KateD – if Wikipedia is to be trusted, Benedict’s mother would indeed have been early 40s when he (the youngest) was born. Maybe they did marry late, or for some reason had their children late in life. After all, it would have been a strange time to live in, with the Great War, and the unstable political/economic situation in Germany; must have been disruptive to normal family life to say the least!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI
KateD — I just confirmed in Georg’s book that his father was 43 when he put a personals ad in the local Marian shrine paper, finding his wife Maria there. “Mid level government official, single, 43 years old, with an irreproachable record, from the country, seeks to marry in the near future a good Catholic girl who is tidy and a good cook and can do all the household chores and is also proficient at sewing and has her own furnishings.” Those were the days! Catholic Maria Peintner was born January 8, 1884, and Georg was born 1924, making her indeed 40 at his birth, and about 43 at Joseph’s birth three years later. I highly recommend this book.