The Presbyterian News Service reports that the Rev. Dr. Horace T. Allen, Jr. died on February 5, 2019. Professor Allen, described as “a fierce advocate
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Running Toward Advent
Should the Church give up any pretense of an “Advent” and just give-in to the “holiday season,” and leave it at that?
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Update on the French and Italian Missal Translations
The French Missal translation will be the first significant test of Francis’s re-calibration of the translation process.
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Man, I’m Tired of Inclusive Language
Inclusive language appears to be dead, and those of us who continue to demand it appear obsolete and out-of-touch.
Read moreArchbishop Gregory: Time to Review Missal Translation
In an interview just published in America, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, chair of the US bishops’ committee on liturgy, said this about a reexamination of the
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How to Translate Conversatio Morum?
In a recent liturgy, a candidate for simple profession to a Benedictine abbey promised stability (in English), obedience (in English), and conversatio morum (in Latin). Why couldn’t that third promise be rendered in English? And how best to do so?
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ICEL Update
The ICEL bishops want texts that are less Latinate.
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Another UK Bishop Comes Out Against the New Missal
“I have had plenty of time to repent of our original decision to vote this translation through.”
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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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Excellent Article on Translation at Vatican Website
The Motu Proprio from Francis itself establishes its governing criteria: return to the Second Vatican Council.
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