Both translations seek to avoid “Gas Board English” and create a suitable language to express transcendent truths
Authors
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest and a doctor of moral theology. The author of several books, he was born in West Sussex, educated at Oxford and in Rome, and has lived in Malta, Italy, and Kenya
The King James Bible, like the new Mass translation, would have been condemned as ‘inaccessible’
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
For the sake of a quiet life, some priests will avoid tricky subjects in homilies
Monday, 6 June 2011
Even preaching about the necessity of confession caused me trouble
Throwing more money at care homes will not help the elderly
Friday, 3 June 2011
The real solution is that care should be what it claims to be – namely caring
Please let us celebrate Ascension on Thursday again
Thursday, 2 June 2011
The current Sunday arrangement has not been a great success
Why do we have such an appetite for the Tudors?
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Posters of Katherine Howard are everywhere, advertising yet another Tudor novel
Kenya’s clerical abuse cases should have been handled with more transparency
Monday, 30 May 2011
RTE’s programme about abuse in Africa showed two very different ways of handling the problem: facing up to it or keeping it quiet
Shakespeare is for all time; Britten is of ours
Thursday, 26 May 2011
The ENO’s reductive production of Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream makes the composer very much of our time
Sins are not meant to be a form of public entertainment
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The existence of the seal of the confessional reminds us that these things belong firmly in the internal forum
No one has ever written about passion like Iris Murdoch
Friday, 20 May 2011
Religion, though, she didn’t understand
Britain seems to be losing its taste for opera
If so, this is bad news for all of us