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Rent Lost in Translation: The English Language and the Catholic Mass
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Liturgical Press Academic
Published: Oct 2017
Genre: Religion - Christian Theology - Systematic
Retail Price: $17.95
Pages: 128
Synopsis
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, andillustrates the clear superiority of the 1998 translation, the "Missal that never was"