Better call him “Banana”

The late Msgr. Bugnini, architect of liturgical reform from the 1950’s  through the establishment of the Novus Ordo until his exile to Iran, seems to have fallen completely out of favor.  Sandro Magister tells us that, in one presentation at the current synod of the Eastern Churches,  the speaker referred (in English) to the “late papal nuncio, Archbishop Bugnini.”  But in the official Italian translation, reproduced  in the Vatican publications, this was reported as “the last papal Nuncio, Archbishop Banana.”  And in the French translation it was given as “Archbishop Boinini.”  How quickly the greats of yesteryear are forgotten – if only the same could be said of their handiwork….

http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2010/10/19/bugnini-impronunciabile-meglio-chiamarlo-banana/