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Missal implementation in India: Bump in the road
Liturgy experts see a possibility of the new English Roman Missal dropping the currently used five special masses for India, which they say would trigger protests.
Read moreNew missal can heal divided church
If this becomes one more occasion to reduce the liturgy to a battleground then we will only give scandal. The Eucharistic memorial can never be truthfully celebrated in a divided community.
Read moreMaking peace on the New Missal—Voices from down under
Father Tom Knowles identified himself as one of the 22,000 signatories of the “What If We Just Said Wait?” petition pushing for a “grassroots review” of the new Roman Missal. But he said the time has come to turn to the practical matter of implementing the changes.
Read moreTranslation… and contraception!
The Italian version of the Vatican-sponsored World Youth Day catechism says that Christian couples “can and should” use “contraceptive methods” – apparently caused by a problem in the original German text.
Read moreWhere Liturgical Language Should Take Us
“It is important to appreciate that language is not divorced from life. Rather, it is expressive of it, organically so. A dead language is such because the culture it was once expressive of is no longer. Merely translating such a language, out of place and time, is to adhere to arcane interests and cling to a corpse.”
Read more‘Sacrifice’ loses friendship
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Read moreHuh? How’s that?
Twelve-year-old Catholic school student, Brandon Sheehan, who is a descendant of Mary MacKillop, will travel to Rome for her canonization on 17 October, said Catholic Education of the Parramatta Diocese.
Read moreLiturgical translation backflip unlikely to hold
Australia’s CathNews published a blogpost about liturgical language problems in Japan.
Read more“Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Renewal,” Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB
World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation, Fr. Anscar Chupungco OSB, challenged recent announcements on liturgical reform decrying their “absence of a historical and cultural approach to the liturgy, or, in a word, the inability to fuse together the two basic concepts of Vatican II’s liturgical renewal, namely sound tradition and legitimate progress.”
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