Tag: US Catholic
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US Catholic’s Readers on the New Missal Translation UPDATED 11-12 and 11-13
If given the option, 76% of priests would go back to the old translation. Only 21% of laity agree that the new translation has had a positive effect on their prayer and participation.
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Priests’ opinions on new translation sought
No, this isn’t the Roman Curia asking. It’s U.S. Catholic.
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Poorly worded: Can we have a Mass that speaks to real people?
“When the official church has to publish a booklet explaining, step by step, why ‘this is good for you,’ bet your bottom dollar it’s not going to be any help at all—especially not where Catholics really need it to help, in their weary and puzzled souls.” – Fr. William O’Malley, SJ, in U.S. Catholic
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Catholic teens and sacramental reconciliation in U.S. Catholic
Robert Nugent argues that for teens to appreciate the value of sacramental confession, we need to clearly ritualize its connection to the larger community and engage their sense of sin as injuring relationships, rather that disobeying individual (often half-understood) laws.
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Give me a literary, not a literal translation
“A literal translation of Latin liturgical texts into English is a literary tragedy, for beauty captured in Latin is not transmittable literally into any other language. It takes English literary genius to capture Latin literary genius. When ICEL (International Committee on English in the Liturgy) was kidnapped from trained liturgists, the literary disasters with which…
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US Catholic: Bend or bow, how not to pray English
by Bryan Cones.
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Death by eulogy
Earlier PrayTell posted the sad news of the death of Fr. James Field of Boston. Today US Catholic posts his wise and witty remarks on the problem of eulogies at Catholic funerals.