{"id":38831,"date":"2017-10-17T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=38831"},"modified":"2017-10-20T06:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:21:59","slug":"bishop-drennan-better-translation-of-the-mass-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/bishop-drennan-better-translation-of-the-mass-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Drennan: Better Translation of the Mass Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>by Bishop Charles Drennan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The new translation of the Mass is six years old. Notwithstanding the introduction of some evocative language, its clunky sentence construction and often awkward vocabulary have tested us all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Three weeks ago Pope Francis sidelined the principles which guided that translation. He issued a\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>motu proprio<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(personal edict) shifting the responsibility of liturgical translations from Rome back to national Conferences of Bishops. Thus he has reaffirmed the teaching of the second Vatican Council which states that it is local groupings of Bishops who oversee then approve translations into the language of the land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">How had the place of translations shifted? Three main factors were at play. Firstly, the decision of Cardinal Medina Estevez (Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments 1998-2002) to wrest control of translations by distancing ICEL (the International Commission on English in the Liturgy) \u2012 which was a group of Bishops and language experts set up by a number of Bishops Conferences (New Zealand included)\u2012 to provide translations. Secondly, the publication by Medina\u2019s Vatican department in 2001 of\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Liturgiam authenticam,\u00a0<\/i><\/span>which outlined that translations were to be tightly shackled \u2013 word by word \u2013 to the \u2018original\u2019 Latin. And thirdly, the emergence of a group called\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Vox Clara\u00a0<\/i><\/span>whose role was to vet ICEL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">These three linked events have now been quietly placed on the sidelines of history and influence.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Vox Clara<\/i><\/span>\u00a0which paraded as the alternative to ICEL is now defunct,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Liturgiam authenicam<\/i><\/span>\u00a0has been popped by Pope Francis\u2019 Motu Proprio\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Magnum Principium,\u00a0<\/i><\/span>and the current Prefect of the Congregation, Cardinal Sarah, has been politely sidestepped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Unlike what much of social media suggests, I don\u2019t see this\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>motu proprio<\/i><\/span>\u00a0as a \u201cprogressive versus conservative\u201d tussle. Pope Benedict\u2019s love for liturgy saw him underline the duty to preserve a sense of the transcendent and reverence. Pope Francis\u2019s love for liturgy sees him underline that liturgy must be comprehensible and should be understood in the context of evangelization, which draws people in as participants, not observers, of the liturgy. Both are right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Liturgiam authenticam<\/i><\/span>\u00a0in fact unfolded as a hindrance not a facilitation of Benedict\u2019s intentions. The 2010 English translation of the Mass burdened rather than enhanced the beauty of the English language\u2019s concise syntax, by imposing a Latin sentence structure. To claim that word for word translation and the use of obsolete and odd language (cf LA 27, 43) favors holiness and reverence is an ideological presumption not an ecclesiological reality. Such presumptions hinder the art of translation which is a delicate task of replicating meaning and concepts and even emotions (not words) from one language into another. A good translation is one whereby the reader assumes the text\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>is<\/i><\/span>\u00a0the original.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Why the\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Vox Clara\u00a0<\/i><\/span>group was seen to offer better advice to the Vatican than ICEL is hard to decipher. To the extent that it was responsible for the\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Liturgiam authenticam,\u00a0<\/i><\/span>one struggles to understand how its members had a love of liturgy as a work of the People of God. It comes as no surprise then that some of the members of\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Vox Clara<\/i><\/span>\u00a0were the very same men who overturned the publication of the Catechism with inclusive language and instead insisted that references to men and women be reduced to the masculine alone. This is ideology, not koinonia or the communion of the Church, at work. And ICEL itself, enfeebled in the shadow of\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Vox Clara,<\/i><\/span>\u00a0has continued its work of translations but following the flawed guidelines of\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Liturgiam authenticam\u00a0<\/i><\/span>has worn down the English-speaking world with revisions of various rites that few really want and even fewer actually asked for.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>Boh<\/i><\/span>\u00a0,as the Italians say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Pope Francis\u2019\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>motu proprio<\/i><\/span>\u00a0is also not simply about resetting areas of responsibility between local Bishops\u2019 Conferences and Rome. Indeed, rightly the last card\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>will<\/i><\/span>\u00a0still be played by Rome whose recognition of approved local translations remains a requirement. After all, the Holy See\u2019s work is, by serving the Successor of Peter, to protect and foster the unity of the Church. The weight or responsibility has however shifted decisively to local Conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Ultimately then this\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>motu proprio\u00a0<\/i><\/span>is an ecclesiological document: it is about how the Pope envisages the Church. Pope Francis is reminding us that what guarantees the universality of the Church is not petrified language or a static understanding of our living tradition. He is reminding us that the universality of the Church means that every culture is called to contribute to the understanding of our Catholic belief that Jesus Christ is the universal savior of every generation and people. He is reminding us that the delicate art of liturgical translation is not ultimately responsible to dictionaries but to those who participate in, pray and live the liturgy. And most of all he is reminding us that the chief protagonist of liturgy is the Holy Spirit who draws every generation into new insights about the mysteries we believe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">What happens next? It is too early to say. What I can say is what we all know: a better translation of the Mass is possible. I can also say that our New Zealand Bishops Conference more than any other in the English speaking world has laid before Rome and the Holy Father himself the frustrations experienced with the current translation, the causes of which Pope Francis has now addressed. Amen. And as the Italians say\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><i>pazienza<\/i><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 patience!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>Charles Edward Drennan is the Catholic Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand.\u00a0He\u00a0was appointed coadjutor bishop of Palmerston North by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011, and became diocesan bishop in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>This article was first posted at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wn.catholic.org.nz\/better-translation-of-the-mass-possible\/\">WelCom<\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0newspaper of the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses, on September 27, 2017. Reprinted with kind permission of Bishop Drennan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is about how the Pope envisages the Church. What happens next? 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