U.S. Bishop Mounts a Rare Public Campaign Against the Vatican

RNS’s Daniel Burke covers Bishop Donald Trautman’s increasingly vigorous campaign against a new translation of the Catholic Mass for American churches, which was ordered by John Paul II to bring it “more in line with the original Latin,” in this week’s full text article, linked above.

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In a January speech to the Catholic Academy of Liturgy, Trautman called the new translations confusing and predicted they will “contribute to a greater number of departures from the Catholic Church,” according to the Rev. Keith F. Pecklers, the academy’s executive director.

Pecklers, a professor of liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, said Trautman challenged the liturgists to “be courageous in questioning those developments that would render the liturgy incomprehensible.” He received a standing ovation after his speech.