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An interesting post from Ireland
Dairne McHenry RSCJ writes an interesting piece in the September Furrow, reacting to the new translation and its imposition specifically as a woman religious. Click here. Acknowledgments to the Irish...
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What is wrong–and right–with the new translation, continued
I appreciated the article by Paul Vallely. Perhaps there were statements a professional might quibble with; perhaps it was worth noting that the strengths were largely there in 1998, whereas the...
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More UK Reactions
Andrew Cameron-Mowat SJ, writing for Thinking Faith, the British Jesuits’ online journal, has trenchantly defended the 1973 Missal’s rendering of Domine, non sum dignus. ’What seems clear is that the...
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Evelyn Waugh, Cardinal Heenan and Bitter Trials
Ignatius Press has just published a third (!) edition of A Bitter Trial, correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal Heenan in the years from 1962 till Waugh’s death in 1966—supplemented by some...
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Christ the King 2011: an Englishman preaches in Bunker Hill
Things sometimes come full circle. Many years ago, more or less by accident, I, a rather English Englishman, was ordained deacon in, of all places, Lexington. And now, on the last Sunday when we are...
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The Anglican Bishop of London on the Eucharist
A recent pastoral letter from Richard Chartres, Bishop of London entitled ‘Do This in Memory of Me’. The whole is worth a read, but perhaps some paragraphs towards the end are particularly significant:...
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Logistical problems with the New Missal in the UK
on the website of The Tablet today: CTS bars US missals as UK stocks run low The Catholic Truth Society (CTS) has blocked attempts by bookshops and parishes to buy chapel editions of the new English...
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The TLS and the New Missal
This week’s The Times Literary Supplement carries a vigorous review of the UK edition of the Roman Missal: link here. The author is Rupert Shortt, a Roman Catholic theologian and journalist, who has...
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Using Poor Language in the Liturgy
An interesting reflection by Fr. Andrew Hamilton, SJ in Australia, on the new translation and the effects it has and has not had. View the entire article at Eureka Street. Send to Kindle:
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The Boston Bombings and the Body of Christ
The UK Jesuit online magazine, Thinking Faith, asked me if I had any thoughts on the Boston bombings, seeing as I was more or less on the spot. In the end what emerged was a reflection about Corpus...
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