God wants you to resist the new translation
Finally, we suspect that the way forward will also include accommodating those who simply refuse to go along and will stand in place and continue to use the same language they’ve been using for decades. Our suspicion is that God will not be terribly upset by a little show of resistance.
So says a National Catholic Reporter editorial. Though I bet if somebody said all there responses in Latin while attending Mass that they would give them quite a look. But hey they would be just using the same language they had been using for decades if they grew up before the council. Tradition is really really important especially if it only goes back 30 years or so. Yes God really wants us not to change to a translation that is more theologically accurate or one that gives him more glory considering that the current translation had gone on a diet from adjectives when it came to referring to our Lord. That they would suggest resistance just goes to show that once again they have no idea what obedience means. The same article laments the liturgical wars and how gracious they say Bishop Trautman is and then they suggest that people just go on using the old translation. Sure that's one really good suggestion for liturgical unity and ending the liturgical wars.
But what I find so fun with NCR articles is that they are so cliche ridden with venom dripping when the Vatican is mentioned.
"crowd of powerful actors in the Vatican", "managed to overthrow that process", "Short-circuiting a six-year debate", "Of the group that met in secret,", Powers in Rome handpicked a small group of men who in two weeks undid work that had taken dozens of years,” "that was the beginning of the final phase of a coup that upended all of the processes that had been in place since Vatican II"
Being a editorial it is unsigned, but you have to wonder if Dan Brown is now on their editorial board? Though I think he would fit right in with no problem.
Update: Amy Welborn also comments to good effect on this article.
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Funny how the NC Distorter emphasizes the "American" aspect of American Catholicism while the NC Register emphasizes the "Cathlolic" part.
LOL National Catholic Distorter good one;-)
Funny how given the radical and sudden implementation of the new translation almost 40 years ago, which they never seem to oppose, they expect a more moderate transition now, more accomodating to tradition. They're really inamored with trivializing the Mass with defficient liturgy and poor translation.
In the immortal words of Mick Jagger, "Tiiiiiime is on our side. Yes it is." They lost, they know it, they're old, and thanks to contraception, there's no "next generation" of them to have to deal with! The more they realize their 40 years of dissent has gotten NOWHERE, the louder and more angry they're going to become. Pity them.
Pray for the poor staff who will have to care for these old buzzards in nursing homes....what angry old sourpusses they will be! Geesh!
Please note the similarity between the NY Times and NCR. What arrogance!
Has anyone heard of Dioceses that have begun implementation processes like pamphlets to parishoners etc. If we can get a jump start on the implementation, we'll have momentum on our side before the NCR ilk can poison its Catholic readership (which we cannot prevent so easily).
With the improvements being made to the translation of the Mass, they still left out the most glaring error - the translation of pro multis to "for all" in the words of the consecration. on the other hand, I've been say "I" believe when I recite the Creed in the Mass for years. I know what "credo" means after all, even if the ICEL doesn't.
I remember discussing the issue of kneeling at the Agnus Dei with a former university chaplain. He argued that tradition at the school overrode the law. When I pulled out the Canon Law requirements for what constitutes a valid tradition (the change would have had to be implemented before VII) he changed his tune to "liturgical law is like a traffic light in Italy".
I like how the editorial constantly refers to the Church as the "community." How cliche can you get?
If anyone has the right to claim "victim status", it is the priests and laity who have been deprived for over 30 years of much of the essential content of the prayers of the Roman Missal.
"Our suspicion is that God will not be terribly upset by a little show of resistance."
Gee, I wish I was as smart as those folks at NCR. Then I'd be able to figure out how that "little show of resistance" thing works for some people but not Bishop Tod "How dare you make a scene by kneeling to receive Communion" Brown.
In your recitation of venomous phrases, you forgot a doozy:
"That was the beginning of the final phase of a coup..."
LOL!
Not to worry! No one reads the National Catholic Distorter except chancery bureaucrats and feminunizis. And they represent the teeniest, tiniest fraction of the U.S. Catholic population.
Let 'em fume. They're irrelevant. :)
Hey Jeff, You may be happy to know you have a diverse readership. Someone at NCR found my link to your fisking of their article.
Good to reach all corners I guess.
The NCR has been a bastion of leftist leanings. They are anathema.