Lost in Translation

With the American bishops discussing the latest revisions to the Mass, Commonweal reran this article by John Wilkins reviewing the preceding decades of controversy.

But the CDW [Congregation for Divine Worship at the Vatican] was moving toward its knockout blow. On March 28, 2001, it published a new instruction on the use of the vernacular, titled Liturgiam authenticam (Authentic Liturgy), which overturned the entire basis on which ICEL’s [International Commission on English in the Liturgy's] work had rested for nearly forty years. And in July a supervisory committee of cardinals and bishops known as Vox clara (Clear Voice) was established to ensure that the Vatican would get exactly what it wanted. The English-speaking language group is the only one to have had such a committee imposed on it.

Indicating the problem was with the English-speaking language group and not with the Vatican.