Vatican City: Pope Francis rebukes Cardinal Sarah on liturgy

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Bishops’ conferences now have the responsibility “to translate faithfully” the liturgical texts from the Latin into the language of their respective countries.

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By Gerard O'Connell | October 22, 2017

Pope Francis has publicly corrected Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in a letter released by the Vatican on Oct. 22, 2017. In that letter, the pope informs the cardinal that the commentary attributed to Sarah on the motu proprio “Magnum Principium,” regarding the translation of liturgical texts, is not a faithful and correct interpretation of that papal decree.

The motu proprio (an edict issued by the Pope personally), released on Sept. 15, 2017, restored to bishops’ conferences the authority given to them by the Second Vatican Council to “recognize” or approve the translations of liturgical texts from the Latin Missale Romanum into the language of their respective countries. That authority was taken away by “Liturgiam Authenticam,” an instruction on the implementation of Vatican II’s constitution on the liturgy, approved by John Paul II in March 2001 and subsequently issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship.

In “Magnum Principium,” Pope Francis distinguished between the “recognition” (recognitio in Latin) of a translation, authority over which is now given to the bishops’ conferences, and the “confirmation” (confirmatio in Latin) of the translation by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship. The return of authority to the bishops’ conferences was a restoration and development of what Vatican II’s constitution on the liturgy had granted them, and was widely welcomed by bishops’ conferences on all continents.

Cardinal Sarah published a commentary in L’Homme Nouveau in France on Oct. 1, 2017 (the day “Magnum Principium” came into force), in which Sarah asserted that in reality nothing had changed. He claimed that “recognition” and “confirmation” are interchangeable, even synonymous terms, and that the congregation which he heads still has the decisive authority given to it by “Liturgiam Authenticam” and retains final word on the question of translations.

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