This interview comes from the Archdiocese of Sydney webpage. Cardinal Pell, chairman of Vox Clara, is an articulate advocate of the forthcoming translation. The interviewer is Katrina Lee, official spokesperson for Pell and for the archdiocese.
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“What is at issue here is not just a decision to reject the 1998 ICEL translation of the English edition of the Roman Missal which had been approved by the English Speaking Episcopal Conferences and then produce an alternative translation; there is something far more fundamental at stake. The very teaching authority of the Church is being undermined.”
Lost in Translation
Mar 1
There are discrepancies between the text of the Missal used by Msgr. James Moroney in catechetical materials, and the text posted on the US Bishops’ website.
Update on Vox Clara
Feb 7
About half of the members completed their terms and were replaced by new appointments. Additional members and advisors joined them. The role of Vox Clara seems to be expanding.
Missal production update
Jan 30
Say a prayer for anyone working on missal production. It’s a monster of a job, and there are zillions of details to attend to.
It would be more conventional for such texts to be released by the International Commission on the Liturgy (ICEL), or by the national liturgy offices of bishops’ conferences. Does this portend a greater role for Vox Clara in coordinating and supervising liturgical translation?
by Fr. Jeremy Driscoll, OSB
“When I take up a patristic text, I am keenly aware that I am entering another world, a world considerably different from my own. I must try to understand it as completely as possible.”
Effective January 24th, Bishop McManus is appointing me to the faculty of Saint John’s Seminary and to service as Executive Secretary of the Vox Clara Committee.
The “Received Text” – leaked
Nov 18
OMG. One of our readers just discovered excerpts from the 2010 Received Text of the Roman Missal – leaked at WikiSpooks. This was bound to happen.
Godfrey, Virgil, Pius, Lambert, Justine, Prosper, all you holy men and women: pray for us.