Hannibal Bugnini, Chief Architect of the Invalid "New Mess" of 1969
Was Actually Appointed Not by Pope John XXIII, but by Pius XII
To Head a "Reform" of the Mass, that Turned out to Be the Destruction of the Mass
In 2003 the Contents of a Secret Memorandum of 1949 Were Released
In Which the Commission Pius XII Appointed to "Reform" the Mass
Laid out Its Revolutionary Plans
Pius XII Was Given a Copy of That Memorandum
And Thereafter Allowed Bugnini to Implement Its Modernist Principles
That Led to the Destruction of Holy Week, the Half New Order "1962 Mess"
And Finally the Full-blown, Invalid, Protestant-Masonic-Pagan "New Mess
We received many expressions of interest from our readers in learning more about how Pope Pius XII may have been associated with the ramp-up to the invalid Novus Ordo of 1969. In certain enclaves of traditional Catholics, Pius XII has acquired a kind of semi-divine status as the "last traditional pope," but they are ignorant of the degree to which Pius XII's commitment to the Catholic and Apostolic Mass has become more and more suspect as the years go by. For example, one significant secret Memorandum came to light only in 2003.
The facts are clear. In 1947, Pius XII issued Mediator Dei, an encyclical letter on the liturgy, which was originally thought to stand staunchly for the traditional position. Looking back on this encyclical now, we see that it exhibits characteristics of the indirect, "nuanced" wording that became the hallmark of the Vatican II Anti-council of 1962-1965. Pius XII did state some traditional principles and did reject the most extreme deviations from them (which the Modernists were implementing even then), but he did not condemn the "liturgical reform movement" and provided no penalties for violating liturgical law. Mediator Dei is a weak docuмent, and its weakness opened the door for the Modernists to take over and ultimately destroy in the Newchurch of the New Order the Traditional Latin Mass.In 1948, the year after
Mediator Dei, Pius XII took a radical step. He knew that the Sacred Congregation of Rites, which in 1588, just after the dogmatic Council of Trent, was instituted to protect and preserve the integrity of the Catholic and Apostolic Roman Rite, would never go for a "reform" of the Holy Mass. It was a deeply traditional congregation. So in 1948 Pius XII appointed a new Liturgical Reform Commission to "reform" the Catholic and Apostolic Mass -- which, according to the dogmatic Council of Trent was irreformable. To this Commission, Pius XII appointed only a half dozen "reformers," to be led by the future Chief Architect of the "New Mess," Hannibal Bugnini. The Commission worked in strict secrecy, because if its heretical Modernist principles were exposed to the Roman Curia, they would have been rejected outright.
It could be argued that Pius XII was simply throwing a bone to the Modernist Revolutionaries to keep them under control, but if that was his intention, he failed, and the Modernist heretics whom Pope St. Pius X fought so hard to defeat, won the day. In 1949, the Commission's plans to de-Romanize and Protestantize the Holy Mass were written down in a secret Memorandum. So secret were the Bugnini Commission's plans to destroy the Mass that the 1949 Memorandum was not published until 54 years later, in 2003.
On July 22, 1949, a copy of the Modernist and revolutionary Memorandum was presented to Pius XII. And the supposed "last traditional pope" was apparently swayed by the propaganda contained in it, which had been developed in Modernist circles since the 1920s. To be sure, the propaganda was deftly stated so as to clothe its heresies with pretentious verbiage supporting Modernist and Protestant principles of "fake liturgy," which germinated under Pius XII and culminated in the invalid Novus Ordo Mess of 1969.As some enclaves of traditional Catholics divinize Pius XII as the "last traditional pope," so they falsely characterize John XXIII as anti-traditional. The facts do not sustain such a judgment. On February 22, 1962, John XXIII personally promulgated, in the rarely-used solemn form before the Cardinals assembled, his Apostolic Constitution
Veterum sapientia, in which he wrote some of the most Catholic words on the perpetual necessary of the Latin language for the Mass. John XXIII's Apostolic Constitution was uncompromising traditional, whereas Pius XII's Encyclical Letter
Mediator Dei was not.
It appears that John XXIII was not in favor of Pius XII's liturgical "reforms." In 1960, when John promulgated the rubrics that led to so-called "Mess of 1962," he specifically made it clear that he was not doing so because he favored it, but in personal deference to his beloved predecessor. Pius XII, under whom the "reforms" were engineered. The man who made up the "1962 Mess," Hannibal Bugnini, was hired by Pius XII in 1948, but John XXIII judged that he had heretical tendencies and had him fired in 1962.