Many of us know the story of ancient Rome's enemy, Hannibal, who caught the Romans by surprise by traversing the Alps.
From Wikipedia:
His most famous achievement was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.
During his invasion of Italy, he defeated the Romans in a series of battles, including those at Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae. He won over several Roman allies and maintained an army in Italy for more than a decade afterwards. Never personally losing on the battlefield while in Italy, he did, in 211 BC, fail to lift the siege of Capua, which was an important victory for Rome. Despite his successes against the Roman confederation, he could not force the Romans to accept his terms for peace. A Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was decisively defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama.
History may not repeat itself, but modern Rome had its own Hannibal, Hannibal Bugnini, architect of the Modern Mass. He lasted, undefeated in Italy for a decade following the introduction of the New Rite, until at last he was exiled to Iran under suspicion of being a Masonic interloper, a fact noted in his own autobiography.
His legacy: the New Mass, which in every way, shape and form, was designed to strip Catholicism of its past, theology and philosphy, all in the name of the "painful sacrifice" of appeasing Protestants. Sadly, this disasterous 1960's throw-back remains with us to this day. We approach the 39th anniversary of its introduction this Advent.
The New Mass not only placated Protestants outside the Church, but it created hundreds of millions of new ones from within. Never had one papal act destroyed so much of the Church, so fast, as the promulgation of the Novus Ordo in December 1969.
Mary, Queen of Angels, pray for us.
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