I can’t wait for the movie!
Fr. Zuhlsdorf, the blogosphere’s pastor.
Here I am, minding my own business, checking blogs - I go first to Sante Pater to see what Vincenzo did - he has a post on Fr. Z - like a biography, and I think - “Does he hang out with Father?” (Twinge of envy.) I read the post, and I think, “Wow! Vincenzo really writes well!” (Stab of envy.) I re-read it, and I think, “I didn’t know that!” (Admiration.)
Then I go to Fr. Blake’s blog, and he too has a piece on Fr.Z - as I read the post I realize Father had been interviewed by the Catholic Herald, and both Fr. Blake and Vincenzo linked to the interview. And a great interview it is. It is a must read.
Just yesterday I was telling my friend John Hastreiter how important Fr. Zuhlsdorf is to the Catholic Internet, and what he does is a real apostolate. He is the pastor of the blogosphere, and the world is his parish.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
Shame I missed his visit…
March 1st, 2008 at 10:45 am
Interesting. Yesterday Barb Nicolosi mentioned a quote of Dietrich von Hildebrand and it seems to confirm the experience of Fr. Z:
“…let me affirm unambiguously that beauty does in fact have an ennobling effect. Contact with an environment permeated by beauty not only offers a real protection against every kind of impurity and baseness, brutality, and untruthfulness; it also has the positive effect of elevating us in an ethical sense. It does not draw us into a self-centered pleasure where we only wish to indulge ourselves. On the contrary, it opens our hearts, inviting us to transcendence and leading us before the face of God…(Beauty) frees us from captivity in our egoistic interests and undoes the fetters of our hearts, releasing us (even if only for a short time) from the wild passions that constrain them.”
March 1st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Now I’ve got it, too. I got it from the Hermeneutic of Continuity by Fr. Tim Finnegan.
Fr. Z has been the big mystery man around here. There are still lots of questions that need to be answered. No. 1 is the date and location of the Sabine Farm bash for local bloggers.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Yeah, Fr Z is my original “pastor;” I received the lion’s share of my catechesis through Catholic Online, which I joined in Feb 2001. He’s been interviewed by Marcus Grodi on The Journey Home (EWTN) and I suppose that’s still in the archives. He also did a fantastic job as a commentator with FOX News during the death of JPII and the election of Benedict XVI.
AND - we share a birthday (although I can never keep straight without looking which of us is the elder by one year)
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 am
“He’s been interviewed by Marcus Grodi on The Journey Home (EWTN) and I suppose that’s still in the archives.”
Here it is:
http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/resolve.asp?rafile=jh_00 0825.ra
“He also did a fantastic job as a commentator with FOX News during the death of JPII and the election of Benedict XVI.”
Fox video links are here:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2007/04/podcazt-leo-the-great-and-ben edict-habemus-papam/
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
Thanks for the info Terry -
like the quote above from sf, too.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
+JMJ+
When I read the title and saw the photo, my first thought was:
“Is Father going to play C.S. Lewis in a new movie?”
=P
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
It seems to me Father can act - I seem to recall someone telling me he was in theater - long time ago.