“A Cold Wind from Rome” by Bishop Taylor
Bishop Maurice Taylor was Roman Catholic Bishop of Galloway, Scotland, 1981-2004. He was on the Episcopal Board of ICEL (the International Commission on English in the Liturgy) for more than ten years,...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Translation
The Challenge of Translation by Pádraig McCarthy Fr. Pádraig McCarthy is a retired priest of the archdiocese of Dublin. This article appears in the current issue of The Furrow and reprinted here by...
View ArticleRevising the Mass Texts: Is This the Real Issue?
Ed. note: This open letter was sent to the priests and bishops of Scotland from Fr. Mike Fallon of St. Catherine’s in Edinburgh on March 14th. For some years now it has been clear from Press reports...
View ArticleScottish Priest Calls for Open Discussion
Ed. note: Last month, Fr. Mike Fallon sent an open letter to the priests and bishops of Scotland questioning the process and content of the new translation of the Roman Missal, stating that “the...
View ArticleThe Vatican’s Tahrir Square?
In 1975 in my role as Director of the Upholland Northern Institute (UNI) I was involved in arranging the very first In-Service Training course for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. It was...
View ArticleCardinal Winning: The Shepherd Who Refused to Become a Sheep
The late Cardinal Thomas Joseph Winning was the Archbishop of Glasgow between 1974 and 2001. His biographer, Stephen McGinty, revealed in This Turbulent Priest: The Life of Cardinal Winning (Harper...
View ArticleLetters to The Tablet, 17 September
Keen readers of this blog will note that letters to The Tablet from the 24 September issue have not been posted, even though those for 1 October have. So let us rectify the omission at once: click...
View ArticleNo Good Alternatives
Ed. note: Gabe Huck continues his discussion of the new translation. The column below was published in the December issue of Celebration magazine (www.celebrationpublications.org), and we thank them...
View ArticleStrong words on missal translation from former ICEL chair
In the current issue of The Tablet (subscription required), there is an incisively-written letter to the editor from Bishop Maurice Taylor. Bishop Taylor was chair of the episcopal (i.e. bishops’)...
View ArticleCardinal George on the New Translation in America
I will be interesting to see whether Cardinal Francis George’s evaluation of the new Missal in a recent America interview carry the day. While he admits that “there were a few more justified criticisms...
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