Category: Translation / New Missal
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ESV Catholic Edition not Catholic enough?
In 2019 the Augustine Institute in Colorado published the English Standard Version Catholic Edition. This is a Catholic edition of the popular Evangelical Protestant translation that is owned by Crossway publishing house. This translation is closely related to the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. But it is revised so that the new edition…
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Brief Book Review: New Church, New Altar
“A thoroughly documented historical and liturgical commentary and a most helpful pastoral guide to the celebration of this ritual for the dedication of a church and an altar.”
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Liturgy, the Body, and Memory
Pascal wrote that “we are as much machine as we are mind,” and this seems borne out by our experience of liturgy.
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Australian Plenary Council requests new translation of the Roman Missal
Several motions concerning liturgy were passed.
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Francis, Liturgical Pope: On the Vernacular and Social Transformation
For a biologist who has famously spoken of the church as a smelly sheepfold and a field hospital, the seemingly ethereal world of language appears beyond the scope of Francis’ interest.
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The authority of spoken languages. An important Vatican decree on liturgical translations
The Latin language is a source, but it is situated.
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New Clarifications on Liturgical Translation from the CDWDS
Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has issued a decree with clarifications concerning liturgical translation. The decree explains in detail how the process of translating liturgical texts is supposed to work, with respect to the shared responsibilities of bishops’ conferences and the Holy See. It…
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The study of the liturgy as an ecclesial service for a renewed spirituality
An address by CDW prefect Archbishop Arthur Roche
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Collect Varieties
We will never have a “perfect” translation of the Roman Missal.