August 30, 2010 New translation of Missal is a welcome break from the liturgists’ monopoly, says Father Rutler
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Writing for First Things on the new English translation of the Roman Missal, Father George Rutler observes that professional liturgists have held the Church hostage for too long:
Publicly owned corporations are more accountable to their shareholders than tenured bureaucracies, which may explain why it took the Ford Motor Company only two years to cancel its Edsel, and not much longer for Coca Cola to restore its “classic” brand, while the Catholic Church has taken more than a generation of unstopped attrition to try to correct the mistakes of overheated liturgists.
While it is admittedly imperfect, Father Rutler finds the new translation preferable to existing prayers “whose poesie sounds like Teilhard on steroids.”