Lost in Translation

Gerald O'Collins, SJ, (1931-2024), was an adjunct professor at Australian Catholic University and a research fellow at the University of Divinity in Melbourne. He taught at the Gregorian University in Rome for thirty-three years and was well known as a lecturer and broadcaster around the world. Fr. O'Collins has had hundreds of articles published in professional and popular journals and authored or co-authored sixty-seven books, including The Second Vatican Council: Message and Meaning (Liturgical Press, 2014). John Wilkins edited the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet from 1982 until his retirement in 2003.

Contents
 
Authors’ Note
Preface
1. The Missal That Never Was
     John Wilkins
2. Translation into the Vernacular: Two Guidelines
3. The Roman Missal of December 2010
4. The Suppressed Translation of 1998
5. The Opening Prayers of the 1998 Missal
6. A Tale of Two Missals (1998 and 2010)
Postscript: September 2017
Select Bibliography
Index of Names