You get the feeling that this is a game of chicken and we, the Catholic faithful, are standing in the middle of the street.
Everyone knows how the votes went. What we don’t know is precisely what the votes were about.
They were about the new draft translation, right? Well… yes and no. First there was a vote on adapations to the draft. Then there was a vote on the draft with the adaptations.
We don’t know what the adaptations were. Therefore, we don’t know which draft they approved.
From the Ann Rogers piece on the vote:
The bishops yesterday also rejected a proposed translation to have priests invoke "the dew of your Spirit" in a prayer of consecration. That line now calls for "the outpouring of the Holy Spirit."
But Bishop Roche had earlier urged the bishops to do the "dew."
Clayton Emmer provides a handy summary of Bishop Roche’s address.
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