Tag: New York Times
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Mourning in the Age of Facebook
Bruce Feiler in the New York Times: “Old customs of mourning no longer apply, but new ones have yet to materialize.”
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New York’s next cardinal
Why Archbishop Dolan hates the rose vestments he must wear on the third Sunday of Advent: “I felt like a bottle of Pepto-Bismol.”
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The missal in the media
Santa Fe Ne Mexican, LATime, NYTimes, Tablet, Cleveland Plain Dealer, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, Ed Foley.. and Abbot John Klassen.
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Identifying with your religion, identifying with your country
That’s right, U.S. Catholics are behind Mormons, Protestants, and Muslims in their loyalty to their faith. Only 55% of U.S. Catholics identify “very strongly” or “extremely strongly” with their religion.
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Nonstop prayer since 1999
The church goes by the acronym IHOP in its teaching materials and Web site, and this year the International House of Pancakes filed a lawsuit charging trademark infringement.
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NYTimes on the KJ Bible… and the new missal
The most powerful religious language is often a little elevated and incantatory, even ambiguous or just plain hard to understand.
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New York Times on the missal controversy
Coming changes include a new English-language translation of the Roman Missal, a translation produced after almost 30 years of labor, intrigue and infighting. After getting a glimpse of the texts in recent months, thousands of priests in the United States, Ireland and Australia have publicly objected that the translation is awkward, archaic and inaccessible.
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Translation roundup
It’s been a long road, folks, and we’re not there yet. 17 years on one revised translation, all for naught, then some ten years on this translation which perhaps isn’t yet finalized.