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Cardinal Sarah: The Vatican’s Great Survivor
Papal allies constantly urge Pope Francis to remove the cardinal. But he has good reasons not to.
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Communion in the Hand: What is the History? [UPDATED]
“This little volume is simply a classic example of that literature that betrays the lack of full acceptance of the liturgical reforms by some sectors of the Church.”
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New Papal MC
Fr Krzysztof Marcjanowicz, a priest of the diocese of Krakow, has been named Papal Master of Ceremonies.
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Liturgical Prayer Must Be Intelligible: Another Excellent Paper on Magnum Principium
“Given these premises it was certainly not foreseeable that translations of liturgical texts would be presented and approved with an excessive attention to words, phraseology and to Latin style.”
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What translation guidelines for official vernacular versions of Roman Rite liturgical texts in English are presently in force?
What new sets of guidelines might we expect, who would formulate them, and what do the bishops’ conferences want to do with the translations guided by Liturgicam Authenticam?
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Bishops of England and Wales Get a “No” on the 1998 Sacramentary
The Congregation for Divine Worship said that the motu proprio “concerns future liturgical translations and cannot be applied retroactively.”
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A Nail in the Coffin of Liturgiam Authenticam
“Liturgical inculturation will certainly benefit from this measure regarding translation, intended to infuse new blood into the Church’s patrimony of prayer.”
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Parolin to Preside at USCCB Centenary Mass
Will the American bishops discuss Pope Francis’s motu proprio, Magnum principium, at their upcoming meeting?
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Reports Concerning Supposed “Ecumenical Mass” Are “Utterly False” Vatican Says
An anonymously sourced story being spread since March of this year, and recently reported in First Things, has been debunked.
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