Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin
Jimmy,
It seems fair to note that any language has two basic functions; one clearly to communicate and the other to evoke thoughts, ideas, and emotions. Each language since the dawn of civilization has had these attributes as well as a variant of the evocative that is reserved for addressing the divine.
Liturgical Latin and Greek have their origins in pagan Greco-Roman forms; a very natural evolution since one knew, hearing the syntax and word-usage, that it was the sacred form.
English is no exception. We Americans have become so accustomed to techno-babble and direct communication that the evocative seems strange to our ears. Sacred language is an art form offered in highest praise as is music, stained glass, and the architecture of our great churches.
A long piece on the power struggles between the ICEL and the Congregation for Doctrine and Worship leading to the aborted 1998 translation, Liturgiam Authenticam and the new translation
Lost in translation: the bishops, the Vatican & the English Liturgy
by John Wilkins former editor of The Tablet
Whst do you say to people who note that we wouldn’t even know about adult stem cells except for research on embryonic stem cells?
D’oh! Wrong post.
Monsignor Wadsworth did.
He is also a big proponent of the Traditional Latin Mass.