Vatican II Documents

[HagiaSophia]

"…The present translations of the documents of the Second Vatican Council are “imprecise”, according to Archbishop William Levada, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Zenit reports that he suggested that the problem should be resolved by a careful, official, re-translation of the Council documents, perhaps in ten years time, to mark the Council’s 50th anniversary.

To date, no translation of Vatican II documents has been presented as official…"

"In his address, Archbishop Levada explained that ambiguous translations had been made of the Council’s texts, in particular of “Dei Verbum,” suggesting the urgency of a total revision of the texts to correct the various interpretations and translations, which, he believes, do not reflect the authentic meaning of what the conciliar fathers wished to transmit. "…

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[Dr.Bombay]

Well, they’d better start translating now. At the glacial pace that the ICEL moves, it’ll take them ten years just to get a first draft done. By that time, Vatican III will be half over. :nope:

 

[harinkj]

Why doesn’t the Vatican just hold the Church to the official latin documents? Bishops should not be adhering to translations. :tsktsk:

Kathie :bowdown:

 

[porthos11]

Dr. Bombay:

Well, they’d better start translating now. At the glacial pace that the ICEL moves, it’ll take them ten years just to get a first draft done. By that time, Vatican III will be half over. :nope:

It probably won’t be ICEL doing the translations, since they deal with liturgical texts. These are more doctrinal texts, and would fall more under the auspices of the SCDF.