Annibale bugnini biography of michaels

Annibale Bugnini
The main author of the Novus Ordo

By Michael Davies
 

 

    &#;We must strip from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren that is for the Prostestants.&#;  - Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, main author of the New Mass, L'Osservatore Romano, March 19,

Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, who died in Rome on 3 July , was described in an obituary in The Times as "one of the most unusual figures in the Vatican's diplomatic service." It would be more than euphemistic to describe the Archbishop's career as simply "unusual".

There can be no doubt at all that the entire ethos of Catholicism within the Roman Rite has been changed profoundly by the liturgical revolution which has followed the Second Vatican Council.

As Father Kenneth Baker SJ remarked in his editorial in the February issue of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review: "We have been overwhelmed