Part 3 of Gabe Huck’s 4-part series on the new translation.
“We are being told something by this new missal and we had better understand: ‘Your language doesn’t matter. Nobody’s living language matters. Latin matters.'”
Month: November 2011
George Weigel on breaking bad liturgical habits
George Weigel harps on bad liturgical habits.
Read more16-year-old Latin whiz finds new liturgy language lacking
“The first rule that every Latin translator learns is that often Latin words may look like certain long, rare English words — but comprehensibility matters more…Ridiculous words defeat the point of a translation in the first place.” — Erik Baker
Read moreBook Review: Saints Preserved: An Encyclopedia of Relics by Thomas J. Craughwell
How many heads did Saint John the Baptist have? And whatever happened to the eye of Saint Edward Oldcorne?
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