"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
I don’t care if I sound like a curmudgeon, perhaps I am one, but there is nothing so disappointing in this world as the words and behavior of our fellow human beings. This is why someone had said, the more I see of people, the more I like my dog.
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This carried me back in mind to my schoolboy days as a minor seminarian. (We started at 14 then!) It struck me then, reading and construing the ancient Greek and Latin authors, that little has changed in the human experience and in knowledge of what ultimately matters. Perhaps this is what made me even then so skeptical of the view of history that sees everything in terms of “progress.” Progress toward what? From where? Don’t misunderstand me. I am all for central heating and indoor plumbing (Of course the Romans actually had that!) and constantly use the technology that makes Fr. Z’s ministry possible. It really is great fun if you don’t over do it. (What was it the Greeks said about temperance?) I fear that much of the current existential angst among traditionalists and conservative actually comes from unwittingly accepting the outlook of our foes.
They have no sense of the ironic and tragic nature of life; certainly no sense of humor or of divine providence.
OK, I have to admit that I am not one of the cool kids who knows Greek. Greek tragedies, along with actual Greek, were not high on the academic list at the schools I attended. I actually got more Greek getting my two math degrees than I ever did in any of the mandated literature classes.
Greek to English translators were no help, translating the Greek words from Fr. Hunwicke into a Greek script and translating the Greek script above into another style of Greek script (thanks, Google translate!). It took me a while to find the play online but, at last, it was found. The end chorus I found was this
Zeus on Olympus,
dispenses many things.
Gods often contradict
our fondest expectations.
What we anticipate
does not come to pass.
What we don’t expect
some god finds a way
to make it happen.
So with this story.
So, I think I understand the point, maybe, provided I have found an adequate translation of Medea: expect the unexpected. Please, some cool kid, correct me if I’m wrong.
HEY! I posted the Greek!
This is part of a floating epilogue, which appears in several of the plays of Euripides.
He must have thought he was on to something.