Lost in Translation The English Language and the Catholic Mass |
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| Author:
| O'Collins, Gerald
Wilkins, John |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8146-4457-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
| Publisher: | Liturgical Press
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| Imprint: | Liturgical Press Academic |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the 2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails to achieve what the Second Vatican Council mandated: the full participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory principles prescribed by the Vatican instruction Liturgiam Authenticam(2001), this book, which includes a chapter by John Wilkins:
In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the 2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails to achieve what the Second Vatican Council mandated: the full participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory principles prescribed by the Vatican instruction Liturgiam Authenticam(2001), this book, which includes a chapter by John Wilkins:
- tells the story of the maneuverings that sidelined the 1998 translation approved by eleven conferences of English-speaking bishops,
- criticizes the 2010 translation, and
- illustrates the clear superiority of the 1998 translation, the "Missal that never was"