The idea that the translation of the Latin Rite Mass into
English should be done by a handful of non-native speakers of English in Rome
rather than the overwhelming majority of native-English speaking bishops and
scholars in the entire Roman Catholic Church is so absurd that one wonders
about the motives behind it. Whether intended or not, it discredits not only
those bishops and scholars but the intention of Vatican II for the use of the
vernacular in liturgy. The English-speaking RC Church throughout the world
should simply decline to use a translation of its liturgy not made by itself; I
doubt that the Vatican would be ready to excommunicate the majority of the
world's English-speaking Roman Catholics for the sake of such an absurdity.
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