Tag: Diekmann Center
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CARA Preliminary Results: Clergy and Lay Leaders Skeptical of New Missal
Only 41% agree that translations in the same style should be done for other rites such as marriage, confirmation, and the Liturgy of the Hours, with 52% disagreeing (36% strongly disagreeing) that other rites be similarly retranslated.
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What US Priests Really Think About the New Translation
59% of priests do not like the new translation, compared with 39% who do. An overwhelming 80% agree that some of the language is awkward and distracting. 61% think the translation needs urgently to be revised, and do not want to see the other liturgical books translated in a like manner.
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All Together Now? Catholic Unity and the Liturgy
Fifty years after the promulgation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, some assert that this unity is textual. But is the unity of the Roman Rite really about having a single text? Textual unity was not what the fathers of the Council chiefly had in mind when they made the landmark decision to opt…
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Bruce Harbert and Carl Daw at Saint John’s!
In September 2009, the Diekmann Center at Saint John’s School of Theology·Seminary hosted Msgr. Bruce Harbert, executive director of ICEL, to deliver the address “The Missal’s Image of God.” The Rev. Carl Daw, executive director of The Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada, gave the response. Both are available online.