Category: BCDW / USCCB
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New Text of Infant Baptismal Rite Approved
The vote passed with the needed two-thirds majority. 23 voted against the new text. 3 abstained.
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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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Archbishop Gregory “Warmly Welcomes” Pope’s Translation Actions
“These are a very helpful set of guidelines…”
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An Issue for Future Liturgical Translation (I): Correcting Already-Approved Mistranslations
How does a territorial bishops’ conference identify and correct mistranslations that appear in texts that have already been approved for use by the conference and confirmed by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments?
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German-speaking bishops move to take control over liturgical translations
Cardinal Reinhard Marx says Liturgiam authenticam, the rules for translation the Vatican issued in 2001, was a “dead end”. But thanks to a recent decision by the pope the bishops now have greater freedom. The German bishops’ president, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, said the first reaction he and his confreres had to the new…
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What is the Declaration on the Way?
The Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist (DW), is a document of the US Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue. It is an attempt to review the last 50 years of dialogue and to see where we are in our ongoing conversations about some major topics. The idea for the document was originally floated by Kurt…
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In Conversation on the Motu Proprio: Bishop Coyne
“I think the translation of liturgical texts is important, but it is not high on my priority list.”
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New Consultors for the CDW
Among those named are Massimo Palombella, director of the Sistine Choir, and Bruce Harbert, former director of ICEL who guided much of the English missal translation before ICEL’s work was gutted and distorted by Vox Clara.
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“The body/blood of Christ” vs. ***** [crickets]
Should concelebrants “take” communion or “receive” it?