Using poor language in the liturgy - Eureka Street

Even in Australia the “new mass translation is being criticized.

 

Andrew Hamilton January 16, 2013

The most pressing issue for the Church over the last year has been sexual abuse. Given the Royal Commission and other enquiries, it will surely also dominate this year's news. So it is understandable that there has been no space to celebrate such anniversaries as that of the introduction of the New Mass Translation. But this bears reflection because language is the underlying canvas on which life and conduct in any community are painted.

One year on it is clear that the more dramatic hopes and fears about the new translation were not realised. There were no reports of widespread rebellion in the pews, of continuing cacophony as different versions of responses mingled, of mass defection.

But nor has the introduction of the new translation been accompanied by the great spiritual renewal

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