Vox Clara: Translation of Mass Prayers Could Be Ready in Mid-2007

By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican could approve the new English translation of the main Mass prayers as early as mid-2007 if the work of its advisory committee proceeds as planned, the committee said.

The Vox Clara Committee, which includes a dozen bishops from eight English-speaking countries, met Dec. 4-5 at the Vatican.
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A Dec. 5 press statement from Vox Clara said that since the congregation wanted to be able to give the "recognitio" in a timely fashion Vox Clara planned to conclude its review of the submitted translations at its March 2007 meeting.

But before we all get too overjoyed, there is more...

Although the congregation may approve the Order of the Mass in 2007, some bishops have suggested it might be better not to use the new translation until work is completed on translating the entire Roman Missal, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

And this could take YEARS....Let us hope and pray that we have to wait no longer - we have waited decades for an authentic translation...

And on the "pro multis" translation, here's what CNS writes:

In a survey of the U.S. bishops before the vote, 90 percent of those who responded felt that "for all" was the best translation. Six percent said "for the many" would be better and only 4 percent preferred "for many" as a translation.

The article is not clear - is it 90% of the US Bishops who are members of Vox Clara (a seeming impossibility) or 90% of US Bishops in total? And who cannot but be "encouraged" that 90% of bishops "felt" that the mistranslation "for all" was the best translation...Get thee to a Latin class!

Notice, though, that CNS ends the article of good news with this tedious bit of propaganda as if how we "feel" is supposed to dictate what we are to do...or this case, how the bishops are to translate from the Latin. It is precisely the "how we feel" mentality that got us into the mess we have in the first place. But then, some never seem to grow up and get beyond their "feelings"...