Epitaph for Annibale Bugnini


Sleep silently, blind uncles, who when young
Spat your mother's milk and lopped her tongue
Who, having filled her house with sweat and noise
Squeezed to death your nephews' infant joys.
For you, graved childless, live nightmares make
Enduring night. Come morning, we shall wake.


This man even wanted to mutilate the Rosary.

And
"In 1972 Father Annibale Bugnini proposed to change the Rosary. “Paul VI responded to this ridiculous proposal… ‘The faithful would conclude that the Pope has changed the Rosary, and the psychological effect would be disastrous… Any change in it cannot but lessen the confidence of the simple and the poor.” Not happy with this answer Bugnini tried again in 1973. This time Paul VI admonished him saying: “The Rosary is to remain single in form and unchanged from what it is now. Let any new forms of Marian devotion take their place alongside the Rosary.”

Sadly, the reasoning Pope Paul gives are pragmatic rather than intrinsic to the nature of the Holy Rosary.

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