{"id":12371,"date":"2011-11-23T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2011-11-24T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T17:33:48","slug":"vatican-vandalism-the-new-english-translation-of-the-catholic-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/23\/vatican-vandalism-the-new-english-translation-of-the-catholic-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Vandalism: The New English Translation of the Catholic Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

“This weekend, English-speaking Catholics around the world will walk into their churches to find an act of Vatican vandalism, as a new English translation of the Mass is foisted upon them. This new translation is a throwback to 19th century English that would make the Bront\u00eb sisters feel right at home. (I should, in fairness to the Bront\u00ebs, point out their prose is eminently more readable than the Mass translation in question).” – That’s John Pinette in HuffPost<\/em>. Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will this make more Catholics love the Mass? Even at a time of such diminished credibility for the Catholic Church, most of the faithful will simply put up with the changes. More’s the pity. Nevertheless, this new translation of the Mass is obtuse, inelegant and, ultimately, unnecessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1064,1693],"class_list":["post-12371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-new-missal","tag-huffington-post","tag-john-pinette"],"yoast_head":"\nVatican Vandalism: The New English Translation of the Catholic Mass - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/23\/vatican-vandalism-the-new-english-translation-of-the-catholic-mass\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vatican Vandalism: The New English Translation of the Catholic Mass - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Will this make more Catholics love the Mass? 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