Today's the day the American Bishops will be voting on the new English translation of the Mass

Francis Cardinal Arinze wrote them a couple of weeks ago telling them that Rome expects a literal translation of the Latin.

Father "Z", Minnesota's permanent ambassador to the Vatican, via St Agnes, author of the W.D.T.P.R.S? blog, has some dispassionate thoughts on today's election battle, for battle it promises to be:

About the upcoming vote by the bishops on the draft translation, I tip my hat to American Papist o{]:¬) for the following predictably muddled AP story:

"My big concern is people are going to feel like they’re being jerked around. They finally got used to the English translation and now they have to get used to another translation," said Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and a Jesuit priest.

"It’s going to cause chaos and real problems and the people who are going to be at the brunt end of it are the poor priests in the parishes who don’t need any more problems."

To which I respond: COWARD!

WAH WAH WAH

Friends, the good of the Catholic faithful require that we have new translations. Rome has given norms. The task is set before the entire Church.

Pastors of souls who love their flocks will put their backs into explaining and presenting the changes properly. Do parents of children simply curl up in little balls and WHINE about how hard it is going to be to educate their children, feed them, shelter them, see to their needs? "Sniff… It’s soooooo harrrrrrrrrd!"

I am tempted to put this in terms more suited to Tony Soprano, but "Boo hoo!"