CNS reports that the Vox Clara Commission, recently breaking from their meeting last week, expect that the English translation of the Roman Missal will be completed and approved by the end of 2009. Given the time it will take to go to print, and ease reluctant clergy to buy in, it looks like another three years this Advent before it hits the ground most everywhere.
Eight years after the Latin text is promulgated. There’s efficiency.
Catholic Sensibility 
Better to take their time and get it right than have a lousy translation that will have to be redone in short order.
Efficiency is relative. It took the ICEL 24 years to submit its translation of the second edition of the Missal to Rome. Eight years is mercifully quick!
Handsome bunch (???!!!)….do you think they smiled knowing they would be shown on Catholic Sensibility?
Maybe all of the women were out to the powder room at the time the photo was taken?
Surely there must have been SOME of the female gender in this commission?
Actually, Brian, ICEL was ready with Roman Missal II in 1988, but it bounced back and forth between them and the USCCB till 1992 or 93. Rome denied approval in 1998.
Jimmy Mac,
Women? Make decisions in the Church? Please.
Even rubber-stamping seems to require ordination.
Todd, I stand corrected, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than that. For the record, the 2nd edition of the Missal came out in 1975. ICEL submitted its translation to the BCL in 1993, a full 18 years later, and the USCCB sent it to Rome in 1999. Rome never denied approval, since the entire matter became redundant when the 3rd edition was issued in 2000.
Any way you look at it, I think 8 or 9 years to ensure a quality translation is a worthwhile wait.
Peace.
Thanks for commenting, Brian. I agree the wait will be worthwhile if the final result is itself worthy.