If the engineers of the neo-Reformation were able to advance their plans and bring forth a new Mass for the Church in defiance of centuries of divine guidance, it means they weren’t being watched too carefully. While Pope John XXIII and his men were busy at work preparing for the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), there lay hidden in the Vatican a secret cabal of liturgical planners whose work would bring discredit to the Church and to the one appointed to lead it, Pope Paul VI.
At the helm was the infamous Msgr. Annibale Bugnini who had long been suspected of conspiracy. He and his clique formed the eye of this conciliar hurricane that would set the Barque of Peter onto a new and destructive course.
Bugnini’s work as a liturgist goes back to 1947 when he began a twenty-year period as the director of Ephemerides liturgicae, one of Italy’s best-known liturgical publications. He contributed to numerous scholarly publications and had a number of books published on the liturgy, but there was a hidden agenda at work from the beginning that slowly began to reveal his perfidious tracks.
Bugnini had long been in contact with radical members of a liturgical movement that had deviated from the sound principles of Pope Pius X. He was present at a conspiratorial gathering of radical liturgists at Thieulin near Chastres in the late forties. Father Duploye, one of those in attendance, writes of Bugnini:
“The Father listened very attentively, without saying a word, for four days. During our return journey to Paris, as the train was passing along the Swiss Lake at Versailles, he said to me: “I admire what you are doing, but the greatest service I can render you is never to say a word in Rome about all that I have just heard.” (Michael Davies, Liturgical Time Bombs)
Every indication is that Bugnini was a Freemason as we will point out shortly, but Pope John XXIII obviously did not suspect this in 1960 when the Preparatory Commission on the Liturgy for the Second Vatican Council was formed. Cardinal Heenan of Westminster even says in his autobiography that “Pope John did not suspect what was being planned by the liturgical experts.”
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