John Gizzi

John Gizzi @johngizzi

As much as I enjoy intellectual sparring (so long as participants abjure from insult & name-calling), I will take a respite from Twitter for a few days as we prepare to bid farewell to Mike Long, longtime chmn. of NY Conservative Party, a Catholic who lived his faith & my friend. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MtheMariner @NelwynToes @tonyannett @WashArchbishop That's what we're going to have to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MtheMariner: @NelwynToes @johngizzi @tonyannett @WashArchbishop TLM is alive and well in NE, just gotta go looking for it. Full churche… — PolitiTweet.org

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1973 Film 'Catholics' Foresaw Pope's Assault on Latin Mass | https://t.co/sK1qUkUE90 https://t.co/NuyMV0X4vn via @Newsmax — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex And please enjoy your NO Mass. But let others worship with whatever brings them closer to God. It isn't too difficult. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex You know something? In 4 decades as a reporter, I find people who insult others 1)are jealous or 2);have very little of substance to say. I guess it comes w.the turf. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex Other things I can't divulge. And verified byvan admirer of his in EU. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @tonyannett @WashArchbishop Good to know, sir. I recall the English Masses of that time & still have a missalnfrom that time. My church in my hometown offered English & Latin Masses right up to early '70's. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex I report stories. And his failing health is widely discussed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex Not retiring. Never bought that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @tonyannett I certainly did, & in my hometown, our pastor kept TLMs going for a few years after that. Others were attached to it. The 6 altar boys at St. Mary's who wrote @WashArchbishop pleading to keep the TLM were almost all younger than that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @tonyannett Now you understand the hostility--worshippers were perfectly happy w. Benedict's great edict. bothered no one & were happy left alone. Any hostility started a year ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @sublime_skeptic @WashArchbishop @Pontifex Considering I carry a rosary blessed by Pope Benedict, you're again. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex Source is in the Vatican & very reliable. And others have said days of @Pontifex are numbered. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex Try Africa, where it is growing. especially in Nigeria. And Cardinal Erdo of Hungary, whom many tag as next Pope, would do it in a minute. Even NO cardinals sense something is wrong w. changing a policy that was working fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tonyannett That was what my generation, including me, did in 1970--shrugged & accepted these changes, as confusing as they were. But as you see, TLM never went away. & if you read what the young Catholics who love TLM say, they're not going to take it — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @WashArchbishop @Pontifex I believe, with all my heart, it will. It can't be enforced by order because it is not based on law or tradition. The next Pope will relegate it to the junkheap of history & restore Benedict's Sonnorum Pontificum-this time as an Apostolic Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tonyannett There would be no "disobedient spirit" had @Pontifex left Pope Benedict's great work in place. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @newsmax Wrong. Call the diocese of Chicago. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheresaMac1960 @HenryKarlsonIII @DavidMathers4 @tonyannett @WashArchbishop So did my parents--very much so. But they also respected the feelings of those who were attached to TLM &, their own feelings aside, they never dreamed TLM would be limited or forbidden. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Pontifex apologizes to Canada for school abuse but has yet to apologize to TLM Catholics for the hurt he has caused. James Joyce once defined Catholicism as "Everybody is welcome." Under @pope, this needs to be amended. — PolitiTweet.org

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Expected TLM today to be funereal but, quite the opposite, the faithful were in fighting spirit--many saying they are through w. @WashArchbishop & DC Diocese, will attend TLM (& contribute) in nearby VA, & pray next Pope will reverse aberration of @Pontifex. Our side willvwin. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jmclghln: After 2016 WI primary loss, Mike Long endorsed Trump to help win NY rest is history Mike Long, NY Conservative Party Chairman… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PrayTheRosary12: I stand with The Latin Mass & Tradition https://t.co/7X1ji4UG2U — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Long, NY Conservative Party Chairman, Dies at 82 | https://t.co/sK1qUkUE90 https://t.co/9DyHVQ7GQn via @Newsmax — PolitiTweet.org

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Thinking of celebrated converts to preconciluar Catholicism--writers Russell Kirk & Graham Greene & actresses Loretta Young & Jane Wyman--& how the Mass & teachings that motivated them became something different & underwhelming @reaganworldi — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes God gives us turns of events. Archbishop Michel Appétit of Paris was to end all TLMs in his diocese. But in May, he resigned & Laurent Ulrich became archbishop--& let all TLMs stand. Let us pray. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @tonyannett @WashArchbishop @newsmax @washingtonpost @CardinalBCupich Had he done that, there would have been a schism. 4 cardinals were ready to denounce him as an antipope over his implementation of pistconciliar policy & he backed off. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @tonyannett @WashArchbishop @newsmax @washingtonpost @CardinalBCupich Benedict,I felt, did what John XXIII would have done had he lived 2 more years-maintaining TLM but permitting vernacular Mass. Benedict's Sonnorum Pontificum draws from John's beautiful 1962 Constitution about why Mass is in Latin (which I commemorated on its 60th anniversary). — PolitiTweet.org

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@NelwynToes @tonyannett @WashArchbishop @newsmax @washingtonpost @CardinalBCupich Why? He did require bishop's permission & Benedict said it was no longer required. The Priestly 0rder of St. Peter, which we aupport. was then able to save a number of churches from closing w. TLM priests. — PolitiTweet.org