I fully endorse Michael G. Ryan’s thoughts on the new translation of the Roman Missal (“Mission intelligible”, 29 November). I do not understand how Liturgiam Authenticam could replace, or still worse, change the basic teachings of an ecumenical council, as expressed in Sacrosanctum Concilium. Can a document of a Vatican dicastery, or even a papal document, have more teaching authority than that of an ecumenical council? Looking at the ecclesial events of recent decades, the response seems to be in the affirmative though I wonder how doctrinally correct it is.(FR) Vimal Tirimanna CSsR, Accademia Alfonsiana, Rome, italyMichael G. Ryan’s disgusted parishioner who said “Some of those [2010 Missal] prayers might as well be in Latin” was unfair to Latin. The
11 December 2014, The Tablet
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