Links for further reading
NEW! Read samples of the new translations WHAT IF WE JUST SAID WAIT? What If We Said 'Wait'? | 14 December 2009, America Magazine 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 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
WHAT IF WE JUST SAID WAIT?
BISHOP DONALD TRAUTMAN on the new translations
THE SOUTH AFRICA EXPERIENCE: Articles from the Southern Cross and other sources
BACKGROUND: A HISTORY OF THE ICEL TRANSLATION
OFFICIAL LINKS