From John Allen’s interview, linked below:<\/p>\n
\n\nYou\u2019ve seen the recent letter from Cardinal Francis Arinze to Bishop William Skylstad in the United States. What do you make of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It\u2019s just stating what the situation is. It\u2019s sometimes useful to be reminded of the basic verities.<\/p>\n
Those would be fidelity to the principles of Liturgiam<\/em> Authenticam<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Yes. As he said, the congregation has no authority to approve anything else.<\/p>\n
The Vox Clara Commission believes the new text satisfies those principles?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Yes, very much so.<\/p>\n
A cynic might suggest the cardinal\u2019s letter was intended to influence the upcoming vote of the U.S. bishops.<\/strong><\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure he\u2019d write it for some good purpose!<\/p>\n
If this text is eventually approved, are the liturgy wars over?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I\u2019m tempted to say that it would enormously change the balance of things, but I have no doubt there would be isolated and sporadic resistance. We have a big challenge to make the English [texts] powerful modern, appropriate and strong. We don\u2019t want to just achieve doctrinal fidelity but have clumsy English. We\u2019ve got the doctrinal fidelity now. The ICEL translations are coming through beautifully on that score. But I think with some of them, a few of them, the quality is quite uneven.<\/p>\n
Including the Order of the Mass?<\/strong><\/p>\n
No, I think the Order of the Mass is OK. I\u2019m looking at other texts that are at a much earlier stage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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