You report (News from Britain and Ireland, 21 March) Archbishop Arthur Roche, secretary to the Congregation for Divine Worship, as saying that the 1998 translation (rejected by Rome) of the 1975 Roman Missal (in Latin) has been made “outdated” by the third edition of the Roman Missal (2000) (also in Latin). Did he in fact use the word “outdated”, which means “obsolete” or “behind the times”? Whatever word he chose, a letter (20 April 2000) from the former prefect of the Congregation for Worship, Cardinal Medina Estévez, which accompanied the third edition of the Missal, lists relatively few additions (e.g. new celebrations in the General Roman Calendar) and changes made to the 1975 Missal. Over 90 per cent of the 1975 Missal remained