"New missal deals blow to ecumenism, Catholic liturgist says" - From the Catholic Register.
A real stretch - since the "blow to ecumenism" is that some Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars were left out of the re-translation process. You call that a blow to ecumenism? That a few hundred Ph.D's couldn't get their academia on with the new Missal?
He does manage to say one thing productive: “The words will be an improvement as a whole.”
One key point of the interview - it's going to be very tough to get US Church goers over the hump of the new translations. Expect mucho grumbling, but also pray for better musical settings of the prayers and acclamations that will be in a new translation.
