William Oddie, in a Spectator article, tells the English-speaking world a little about the new mass translation in the works.
“The effect of hundreds of such changes - impossible to convey without more space - has had a massive cumulative effect not merely on the accuracy of the translations, but on their beauty. They now have a meditative quality that had been all but destroyed by the fanatical economy of language - often leading to a sense of indecent haste - of the Seventies paraphrase. The Latin text is allowed to breathe its full meaning into the new English version. Ideological interferences have been dealt with: the Creed now begins ‘I believe’.”
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