Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (Father Z in the Catholic blogosphere) posted this call to action for bloggers on August 27, 2008:
BLOGGERS UNITE! Keep shaping the conversation on pro-abortion Catholic politicians.
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Father Z maintains the most popular Catholic blog and influences millions in the Catholic blogosphere. So, here’s my shameless plug for his blog, What Does the Prayer Really Say?. Here’s a sample of the humor on his site:
Yep. The last two are REAL.
Check out this article from the Catholic Herald:
Why Everyone Logs on to Father Z
Father’s birthday is on October 28, so if you’re one of his readers and would like to get him something, here’s his Amazon Wish List
Fr. George Rutler made this prophetic observation about humor in 1995 on pages 29-30 of his classic A Crisis of Saints:
. . . Such sobriety mingled with virtue is the stuff of saints.
And by way of corollary, the recovery of spiritual sanity will have humor as one of its signs. For humor is among other things the perception of imbalance as imbalanced and the appreciation of incongruity as incongruous.
Self-absorbed observers are not observers at all, and so they tend to humorlessness; they lack a platform in reality from which to measure the lack of measure around them.
In the present life of culture, and certainly in this moment of the Church, extremists on the left and on the right have a common inability to laugh at themselves.
Healthy jokes are to them like a strange sound frequency to a dog: they turn their heads, they look distressed, but they do not laugh.
The years after Vatican II, which were supposed to bring fresh air into the Church, did not bring fresh laughter. We do not expect humor in encyclicals; but incidental works of apologetics are unwell when humor is totally absent. Something is very wrong when the only humor in diocesan newspapers is unintentional.
What is worst about the manners of our times is the awkwardness at attempts at humor that laugh at things balanced and congruous. As this takes its course, laughter will not only be the only lost gift:
There will be no gift of tears in the confessionals and no gift of singing at the altars. And all because we took seriously the most incongruous notion that we have finally balanced the world.
From such an implausible view of life, the only thing that makes people laugh is cruelty: cruelty to the beautiful, cruelty to the truthful, cruelty to the good.
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