Two viewpoints

A telling set of quotes on the Great Translation Vote of ’06

The Vatican recently issued updated guidelines for the translation of the Latin texts with the goal of arriving at a more accurate translation, as well as one that reflects “a deeper language that’s more expressive and more poetic,” said Monsignor James. P. Moroney, who leads the liturgy office for the bishops’ conference.

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“My big concern is people are going to feel like they’re being jerked around. They finally got used to the English translation and now they have to get used to another translation,” said Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and a Jesuit priest.

I’ll take expressive, poetic and truer to the Latin any day.