TMC;2984741]Can we just clarify something? Are you saying that Paul VI knew that Bugnini was an agent of the Masons and was deliberately working to destroy the Mass?
Any proof that Bugnini was a freemason was in the “dossier” that was given to Pope Paul but that was in 1975. Pope Paul trusted Bugnini and that is why he let him lead the way in writing the New Mass. I don not believe that he suspected Bugnini of being a freemason, if he was one.
If yes, then Paul VI either allowed the Mass to be perverted and is an evil man, or he fixed the harm and it doesn’t matter.
Pope Paul wanted to modernize the Church. Bring it up to date. That included changing the Mass. The question which is never answered is this: Why didn’t Pope Paul change the Mass according to the *Constitution on the Liturgy *that was passed by over 1900 Fathers at Vatican II? Why did he go with the Mass written by Bugnini and a handfull of theologians? Why didn’t the reform stop with the Mass of 1965 which he promulgated and which WAS the Mass of the Constitution?
coreyzelinski.8m.com/1965_Mass/
In no, then that cannot not be the reason that Bugnini was “sent away” and the fact that some imagine he was punished cannot prove your allegations.
Pope Paul had known and worked with Bugnini for over 30 years.It had to be something serious for him to dismiss Bugnini without ever disclosing to anyone why he did it.
So the only way your allegation have even internal logic is if you believe that Paul VI was willfully involved in perverting the Mass. Is this your allegation? If so, why do you think he did that? If not, what other reading of your allegations makes sense?
The Vatican II council was obsessed with ecumenism. I beleive that Pope Paul believed that the Latin Mass was a major obstacle to that end. Making the Mass more appealing to Protestants was a factor. That is why he allowed Communion in the hand to continue in the Netherlands even though he acknowleded it was being done without his authority and therefore it was an abuse]
He also allowed the words of Consecration to be changed so that they would be closer to those of Martin Luther. Many of the changes in the Mass were the same as those made by Luther and Cranmer.
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would allow a possibility that Paul and Bugnini did a poor job, or even that they were misguided, (although I don’t believe either) but I it strains credulity to suggest that they were evil people actively working against the Church.
I do not believe that they were evil. Misguided yes.Pope paul had the authority to change the liturgy but I believe it was an abuse of that authority by not following the Constitution that he promulgated
As for Bugnin here are a couple of quoptes from his book
Reform of the Liturgy that shows his feelings toward the Latin Mass.
Pg115 “But how difficult it is to take an ancient building in hand and make it functional and habitable without changing the structure. Peripheral alterations are not enough; there had to be a radical restoration”
Pg 44 “Signs and rites are likely to become incrusted by time, that is, to grow old and outmoded. They may therefore need to be revised and updated, so that the expression of the Church’s worship may reflect the perennial youthfulness of the Church itself…the Liturgy feeds the Church’s life; it must therefore remain dynamic and not be allowed to stagnate or become petrified “
There is alo this quote from Bugnini.
“The liturgical reform is a major conquest of the Catholic Church and has its ecumenical dimensions since the other churches and Christian denominations see in it not only something to be admired, but equally a sign of further progress to come.”(Archbishop Bugnini after the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae, quoted in “Notitiae”, No. 92, April 1974, p. 126)
This is for another thread but there is no doubt if you honestly look at the evidence that the New Mass was made possible by trickery and plot. This is briefly what I mean
The *Constitution on the Liturgy *WAS WRITTEN by Father Bugnini and a handful of theologians.
They then, under the approval of Pope Paul, established a Commission **to interpret **the Constitution that they had written. This enabled them to write the new liturgy in their image.
Various Bishops that were members of the Commission, intentionally started communion in the hand, allowing the laity to give out communion, mass in the vernacular with new Eucharistic prayers etc as early as 1964. All of these were abuses. But they knew that by spreading these practices they would force Pope Paul to cave in to their image of the New Mass.
Pope Paul went along with it simply because he was a weak Pope who was influenced by liberal theologians.