Tag Archives: translation

Language and Order

Witnessing all the recent hubbub about new English mass translation that’s just been approved by US bishops and the ever-present tensions between rival Bible translators, I thought the following quite from Peter Berger’s The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion might provoke interesting discussion. "The social world constitutes a nomos both objectively and […]

Tongue Tied

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 […]

Communication Breakdown

The New American Bible raises banality to an art form. The Good As New Bible is a sin against the Holy Spirit. Lost in Translation A reader send me a link to the following story. By now I am sure many people have seen the story about the […]

Accustomed to Error

So people have gotten used to a bad translation. So what? Granted, the draft of the new mass needs some work to overcome some "clunky" wording, but that’s the not the point. The mass needs to be translationally and theologically correct before it is "comfortable". […]

Mass Discussion

The second article presents a pretty thorough, if biased, chronology of the development of the new mass. British Bishops comment on new English Mass draft " The liturgy office of the Bishops of England and Wales has praised the International Committee […]