New, Progressive Mass Translations Reviewed by Vox Clara

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican's review of English-language Mass translations is picking up speed as bishops' conferences approve liturgical books.

The Vox Clara Committee, a body of English-speaking bishops appointed to advise the Vatican on translations, met May 29-June 1 and will meet again in July.

While many bishops expressed concerns over changing texts recited by the faithful during Mass, these new texts will cause no more problems than the changes which occurred subsequent to the Second Vatican Council...Actually, with more progressively accurate translations, the faithful might be more inclined toward the inestimabile transcendence of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.