Arinze to AmChurch Bishops: Get with the Program

Amy Welborn has some of the details of (and links to) a letter from Cardinal Arinze addressed to Bishop Skylstad, president of the USCCB:

The attention of your Bishops’ Conference was also recalled to the fact that Liturgiam authenticam was issued at the directive of the Holy Father at the time, Pope John Paul II, to guide new translations as well as the revision of all translations done in the last forty years, to bring them into greater fidelity to the original-language official liturgical texts. For this reason it is not acceptable to maintain that people have become accustomed to a certain translation for the past thirty or forty years, and therefore that it is pastorally advisable to make no changes. Where there are good and strong reasons for a change, as has been determined by this Dicastery in regard to the entire translation of the Missale Romanum as well as other important texts, then the revised text should make the needed changes. The attitudes of Bishops and Priests will certainly influence the acceptance of the texts by the lay faithful as well.

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Apparently, Diogenes broke the story.

My Comments (originally posted at Amy's blog):
The liturgical liberals have adopted the same strategy as their judicial liberal counterparts who, after decades of using judicial activism to pursue their agenda, suddenly have a new-found respect for stare decisis now that they fear Roe v. Wade is at risk.

We saw the same thing in the Soviet Union. Eventually, the radicals become reactionaries.


Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
Bishop Trautman, US Bishops' Liturgy Committee Chair, Strongly Criticizes Proposed Mass Translations

How I Know Senate Democrats and the Catholic Bishops are Reading from the Same Playbook