I have a prayer request.
Mr. Alphonse Matt died on Sunday, 8 December. He was 88 years old. Al, whom I had known for many years and was was a fellow parishioner at St. Agnes in St. Paul, was the publisher of the Catholic weekly The Wanderer for decades. In that role, he made a major contribution to informed sanity in the Church in these USA and in Rome – where The Wanderer was indeed read in the offices of the Curia.
Al asked me to write a column for the paper some before the 2001 document Liturgiam authenticam was issued, but we decided that I would write on liturgical translation picking up on a feature that I had posted in the Compuserve in the Catholic Online Forum which I ran. That column was named What Does The Prayer Really Say. Eventually, I started this blog to archive article, but you readers had a different plan for it.