Here are excerpts from those books:
**The new translation is a mark of renewed confidence in the future. I don’t mean the theological virtue of hope, but rather something on the natural plane, namely a sense that the future is not all bleak. That confidence permits a global project that will outlive many who worked on it. Communities that are only managing terminal decline do not engage in such bold action.**
BTT for this worldwide effort. A success ping is due!
BUMP
Amen. This is similar to the heros of the lectionary translation over a decade ago.
Back then the heros were Cardinals Ratzinger and Schonborn, who appointed Dr. Michael Waldstein to do the heavy lifting.
Oddly enough John Allen lays it all out in the liberal rag National Catholic Reporter - they of course demonized these people, but Allen has the basic facts right.
AGAIN, we see an emphasis on this new evangelization...and Latin America is taking the lead. God bless them all.
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