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Joe DeVet
December 5th, 2012 | 7:27 am

The only problem with this post’s headline, and the wording in the survey itself, is calling it a “new translation.”

It’s “new” in the sense of changed for English speakers (in the US and UK, I believe). But it’s not new in the sense of what the authentic wording of the mass has been since V II. It is, rather, a more faithful rendition of that mass. In some places the rendition we set aside a year ago was not just a loose translation, but actually tended to obscure or change certain doctrinal points. Good riddance.

For this reason I prefer to call what we now use the “restored translation.”