Lost in Translation: The English Language and the Catholic Mass

Gerald O'Collins, SJ,John Wilkins

Lost in Translation: The English Language and the Catholic Mass
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Country
United States
Published
18 October 2017
Pages
128
ISBN
9780814644577

Lost in Translation: The English Language and the Catholic Mass

Gerald O'Collins, SJ,John Wilkins

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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:

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

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