What If We Just Said Wait?
The case for a grassroots review of the new Roman Missal
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What's a Catholic to do? Bulletin inserts prepared by Father Jack Conley, CP, Louisville, KY

WHAT IF WE JUST SAID WAIT?

"What If We Said Just Wait | 14 December 2009, America Magazine
Six months later: Fr. Ryan on his article and online petition | 11 June 2010, PrayTell Blog
Murder on the Disoriented Express | Eugene Cullen Kennedy, NCR | 27 May 2010
Bishop Serratelli tries to reply to Father Ryan | Joseph S. O'Leary | 27 February 2010
Thousands join campaign to delay changes to Missal | Nancy Frazier O'Brien, CNS | 25 February 2010
The New Roman Missal | Richard McBrien, Essays in Theology | 22 February 2010
Act in haste, repent at leisure | Michael G. Ryan | 16 January 2010, The Tablet
Slowing down on the new translations | Bryan Cones, U.S. Catholic | January 2010
Priest Challenges New Translation of the Mass | 25 December 2009, NPR's All Things Considered
Read an editorial by Tom Fox, editor of NCR | 22 December 2009
Read more about the project at the National Catholic Reporter | 14 December 2009
Read an exchange on the subject at dotCommonweal | December 2009

BISHOP DONALD TRAUTMAN on the new translations

Article by Bishop Trautman and survey at US Catholic
Liturgy needs not sacred language, but pastoral language | 26 October 2009, NCR
Slavishly literal translation of missal criticized | 26 October 2009, NCR
How Accessible are the New Mass Translations? | 21 May 2007, America Magazine
A Pastoral Deficit | 3 February 2007, The Tablet
The Quest for Authentic Liturgy: A commentary on Liturgiam Authenticam | 22 October 2001, America Magazine

THE SOUTH AFRICA EXPERIENCE: Articles from the Southern Cross and other sources

Mass translations: Things I can’t say | Fr Larry Kaufmann CSsR, 6 September 2009
A letter to the bishops of South Africa | Fr Larry Kaufmann CSsR, 10 September 2009
More on Mass Changes | Bishop Edward Risi OMI, 23 August 2009
Why new Mass translations were necessary | Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier OFM, 22 February 2009
The Liturgy--Lost in Translation? | Father Anthony Egan, 2 February 2009
Why the ‘liturgical anger’ is fair | Bishop Kevin Dowling, 18 January 2009
New Liturgy, Old Problems | Blog by Father Anthony Egan, SJ, 12 February 2009
More articles on the new translations

BACKGROUND: A HISTORY OF THE ICEL TRANSLATION

Lost in translation: the Bishops, the Vatican, and the English Liturgy | John Wilkins, Commonweal, 2 December 2005

OFFICIAL LINKS

Visit the Roman Missal page at the USCCB Website
Web Catechesis for the Implementation of the Revised Roman Missal | Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
Read the full text of Sacrosanctum Concilium | 4 December 1963
Read the full text of Liturgiam Authenticam | 28 March 2001

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