Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap., announced today that he has appointed Msgr. James P. Moroney as rector of Saint John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts on July 1, 2012.
Posts Tagged Vox Clara
More on pro multis, etc.
Jan 7
Pope Benedict’s response was that the consensus of the bishops’ conference will have to be respected.
The Truth?
Dec 1
Michele Somerville is the author of a December 1 article in the Huffington Post, “The Truth Behind the Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal”.
…I was responding rather sharply to a piece by Fr Allen Morris, until recently secretary of the English and Welsh bishops’ liturgy office. On 17 September, he had written a letter defending against a critic what is said in a UK edition of the new texts, namely that the bishops had been overseeing their gestation for about 20 years.
“My hope for the new English translation of the Roman Missal is that all controversy is now laid aside…”
Or maybe common sense will prevail?
by Xavier Rindfleisch
“…before Vox Clara’s 7,000 consultants and experts fiddled with the decrees of Nicea and Constantinople…”
by Xavier Rindfleisch
“Of the 208 examples of problems in the Received Text given in the internal report, the Congregation for Divine Worship has corrected 49. That is to say, most of the constructive assistance has been ignored.”
The content is flawed both theologically and linguistically and it has resulted from a flawed process. So yes: there are two issues: doctrinal / theological and political / juridical. It could be argued that both emanate from the same source: an imperial / Roman mindset in the Curia which the Second Vatican Council sought to challenge and change.
Many Catholics are only now waking up to the fact that the language of the Mass will be very different come the end of November 2011. A new translation of the Roman Missal—the book of prayers used for the Mass—will soon be put into use in all Catholic Churches in the United States. Some who have read the new prayers are happy about the changes. Others are gravely concerned. How did we get to this moment? What follows is a timeline on translation changes.