The backlash against the "new" translation is so very interesting. Of course, it is likewise disappointing and perhaps unfortunately foreseeable, but I feel that with every article I read about the protestations and dissensions, I am watching something much larger unfold. There are many in the laity and priesthood who have been convinced for many years that their opinions
matter: their opinions have been given undue weight, of course, which has only increased their appetite for "contribution," and it was the opinions of so many that got us where we are today.
I found this comment from this article:
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.s...lters.html
"As a non-practicing Catholic in my adult life, I am still appalled that after all the years of almost rountine (sic) saying of the mass, you are going to alienate me further by not knowing what to say when I would go. As it is, I know Lutherans that know (sic) about being Catholic then (sic) I. Just another reason to leave the church behind."
There are many things that brought me back to Catholicism, but one of the single biggest was the very fact that when it came to what was true and what was false, my
opinion was totally irrelevant. I had spent enough years holding my opinion on everything as the ultimate be-all/end-all in my world of illogical and self-contradictory relativism, and it was finally only the submission to authority and Truth that eventually brought me back to the Faith into which I had been baptized as a child. I hope that through the new translation, Catholics will begin to see this same kind of effect: that indeed our little human opinions
don't matter. But apparently, after all these years of elevation of "respect for man" over respect for God, that is going to be a hard sell.