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...
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By Cindy Wooden – Four years after Pope Francis modified canon law to emphasise the responsibility of bishops’ conferences for...
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.
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Fr Larry Kaufmann CSsR, Johannesburg – As far as I am aware, Bishop Edward Risi’s article More on Mass changes (August...
By Bishop Edward Risi OMI Immediately after the the Second Vatican Council, the body responsible for putting into practice the...
Liturgy / Mass / Perspectives
By Bishop Edward Risi – Bishop Roche, president of the International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL), addressed the bishops’...