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April 12, 2011

National Post: Vatican's new Mass 'elitist,' priests say

by Michael Higgins
National Post

A new English translation of the Roman Missal -used by Catholics in Mass -is under attack by some priests, with clergy in Ireland calling it archaic, elitist, obscure and sexist.

Priests in Australia and the United States have also criticized the new translation, which has been 10 years in the making and will be used at Catholic Masses in the Englishspeaking world-including in Canada -this November.

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