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Dear AnAmericanMother,

“I have found that cradle Catholics are more suspicious of the Improved translation, by and large.”

I'm not sure there is an adequate way to generalize about cradle Catholics. I'm a cradle Catholic, as is my wife and are my two sons. We're quite happy with the new translation, especially my older son, who is fairly conversant in Latin.

I know some cradle Catholics who were “suspicious,” at least initially, but even there, a couple of Sundays at Mass with the new translation, and folks seemed fine. My nephew, who is a liberal cafeteria Catholic, even told me after a few weeks, "Oh, it's not as bad as I thought it would be."

The parishes and churches where I usually go to Mass have been fairly enthusiastic in adopting the new translation.

Most of the folks making the noise are the usual suspects, who make more noise than their relatively-modest numbers would predict.

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[AnAmericanMother]

It would have been more accurate for me to say that of the folks who complain about the new translation, most are cradle Catholics, and most also are of a "certain age" - mine and older. Children of the 60s and 70s.

Of course, if you've been raised on a diet of rather bland and "easy" language, stronger meat may be distasteful at first.