Vatican Formalises Process for Approving Liturgical Translations
By Cindy Wooden – Four years after Pope Francis modified canon law to emphasise the responsibility of bishops’ conferences for judging the accuracy and suitability of liturgical...
By Cindy Wooden – Four years after Pope Francis modified canon law to emphasise the responsibility of bishops’ conferences for judging the accuracy and suitability of liturgical...
A document released by Pope Francis that gives bishops’ conferences greater power in introducing liturgical texts will have no immediate impact on the current English missal but will facilitate the approval of translations into South Africa’s other languages, according to the bishop responsible for liturgy in Southern Africa.
In changes to the Code of Canon Law regarding translations of the Mass and other liturgical texts, Pope Francis highlighted respect for the responsibility of national and regional bishops’ conferences.
Perspectives / Scripture / Shackleton
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