Address to the U.S. Bishop's Conference by Bishop Roche

Erin of bearing blog as usual has perceptive comments on the address of Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds, UK, who is the chaiman of the ICEL with respect to the English Language Mass Translations.

Happy Catholic links to an address by Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds, to the gathered U. S. bishops about to vote on the new English translation of the Mass.

The stakes are higher than I realized. I've always been comforted that it's "just the English version" of the Mass that's somewhat screwed up; other countries' missals are more faithful to the Latin, right? But Bishop Roche makes a cautionary point. Because it's English, we have to be extra careful, an argument that in English we should be especially faithful to the text: [snip] Read More

Here's the full unedited version of the Bishop's address from the USCCB.