Vatican approves new English translation for Mass
Monday, July 28th, 2008Catholic World News is reporting that the Vatican has approved new English translations of texts for the Mass. The project of correcting the translation of the entire Roman Missal is expected to last until 2010.
It appears to me that this project is simply trying to get the translation closer to what it says in the original Latin, thereby losing any inculturation. If being closer to the Latin is such a big deal, why not skip English altogether and use the Latin? Otherwise, I fail to see the point in this exercise.


