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What we have here is one of those puzzling or even coffee-spewing (for those who drink coffee) moments when you are reading through a perfectly normal story involving religious themes and you hit a reference that makes you stop and say, “Did I just read what I thought I read?”
Another day, another article about a religious group trying to be hip. It’s the third article in about a month that The New York Times has noted hipster and religion trends. Again, the premise of its latest piece is that religion is not hip so it’s noteworthy when a group finds a way to pull it off.
One of the overarching story lines in the mainstream coverage of the new English translation of the Mass is that the critics of the new translation (who, thus, are the defenders of the old, more casual “dynamic equivalence” translation that it has replaced) are the true defenders of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
I know we’ve seen a lot of bad media coverage of the changes to the wording of the Roman Catholic liturgy in recent weeks. But could we pause for a moment to just note how awesome it is that we’re seeing coverage of this in the first place?
Leave it to the experts to tell us how to deal with the in-laws, the five pounds we’re bound to gain and the tragedy of whatever football teams lose today.
The Washington Post has a religion story that many readers have submitted for comment. The headline could not be more promising:
The future of the Crystal Cathedral’s glass building has been in limbo in recent months, but the board of directors said today that it prefers the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County as its buyer.
