"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
My diocese (Fall River) has a monthly 40-hour devotion scheduled on the second Friday of each month. During the 40 hours, exposition and adoration rotates through a number of parishes and shrines, so that, during the 40 hour period, somewhere in the diocese, He is exposed and available for adoration. It was probably easier when every church had a pastor and 3 or 4 parochial vicars to support the effort in one place, and while probably not the ideal, is not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Full disclosure: St. Anne Shrine was invited to be one of the stops, and we’re humbled that we were asked to participate.
Some of my fondest religious memories of childhood and the minor seminary are of Forty Hours. You had the sense of the whole parish along with many priests and faithful from neighboring parishes involved in one great tsunami of adoration and petition. In the seminary we always had 40 Hrs. on the traditional three days before Ash Wednesday. According to the official points of morning meditation read out the evening before we were, among other things, supposed to make reparation for the “excesses of Shrovetide”, (I recall scurrying to the library on the way to the dormitory to look up Shrovetide. Ah, Mardi Gras! ) These days I think 40 Hrs. has lost allot of its bang because, since the reign of St. JPII, prolonged adoration and perpetual adoration chapels have greatly multiplied in parishes, seminaries and religious communities.
Redemptorists were once known for the splendor of 40 Hours in their parishes and churches. It was the best three days of the seminary year after the Triduum. Then it all came crashing down. We were taught Sacred Liturgy at the WTU by one Theresa Koernke, IHM, who told us “if you go to a parish with Eucharistic adoration end it immediately. If it’s not there, don’t start it. We don’t do that anymore.” And perpetual adoration—oh the horrors! First thing I did in my first parish was restore monthly adoration and the Corpus Christi procession through the neighborhood.
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