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Link to: Women for Faith & Family Archive Reports
June 2014
US Bishops Focus on Family, Religious Freedom at Spring Meeting, by Helen Hull Hitchcock, June 18, 2014, links to story in The Catholic World Report
US Bishops Approve Missal Texts – Next Challenges: Catechesis for Missal, New Lectionary — by Helen Hull Hitchcock
USCCB June Meeting: Bishops Discuss, Vote on Missal Texts — More to Come
USCCB Report — November 2008: During Intense Meeting, Bishops Act on Three Liturgy Items — by Helen Hull Hitchcock
Bishops Reopen Consultation Process After Translation For Proper of Seasons Fails to Meet Two-Thirds Majority — USCCB News Release – July 7, 2008
USCCB June 2008 Meeting: Bishops Debate and Vote on Missal Texts — Second of Twelve Segments Presented at June Meeting: Vote Inconclusive
USCCB November Meeting — Bishops Approve Three Liturgy Items at Busy Baltimore Meeting — by Helen Hull Hitchcock, December 2007-January 2008
New Committee for Divine Worship — December 2007-January 2008
USCCB November Meeting — Bishops to Consider Three Liturgy Action Items — by Helen Hull Hitchcock – November 2007
November 2006 – Music, Translations
2006 USCCB Meeting — Bishops Vote for Music Directory and New Revised Lectionary — First guidelines for approval of music texts; Advent Readings — by Susan Benofy
June 2006 — Mass Translations, Catholics & Politics Task Force
Brief Report on USCCB meeting – June 20, 2006
Procedures for Liturgy Actions at June 2006 USCCB Meeting
Cardinal Arinze to US Bishops on Translation (June 2006 Meeting) — The text of a letter sent by Cardinal Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, to Bishop William Skylstad, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, following a meeting of Conference leaders with the Congregation in April. In the letter, Cardinal Arinze stresses that translations of liturgical texts must conform to Liturgiam authenticam, the Holy See’s 2001 Instruction on translation.
November 2005 — Mass Translations
December 2005-January 2006, Vol. XI, No. 9
July-August 2005, Vol. XI, No. 5
USCCB June 2005 Meeting Report — Bishops Defer Decision on Missal Adaptations
By Helen Hull Hitchcock
December 2004 – January 2005, Vol. X, No. 9
Bishops Send Mixed Signals at USCCB November 2004 Meeting — Highlights of the USCCB Annual Meeting by Helen Hull Hitchcock
Vol. IX, No. 9: December 2003 – January 2004
US Bishops’ November Meeting: Documents for Priestless Sundays, Concelebration, Devotions approved — Among the several documents introduced to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at their semi-annual plenary meeting held in Washington, DC, November 10-13, were three documents relating to the Liturgy and worship by Helen Hull Hitchcock
Vol. VII, No. 9: December 2001 – January 2002
Belleville bishop to head USCCB, Committee chairmen elected
Bishops to “Adapt” Liturgy Rules
Vol. VII, No. 5-6: July-August 2001
Vol. VI, No. 9: December 2000 – January 2001
Vol. VI, No. 4: June/July 2000
Bishops discuss ICEL future (Part I)
by Helen Hull Hitchcock and Susan Benofy
Vol. VI, No. 5: August 2000
Vol. VI, No. 8: November 2000
Origin of ICEL’S “Original Texts”
(Part III of III)
Vol. V, No. 9: December 1999-January 2000
Special Edition
November 1998 Liturgy, Ascension Thursday and age of Confirmation, Restructing the Conference
Vol. IV, No. 8: December 1998/January 1999
Vol. IV, No. 9: February 1999
Bishops Mull Restructuring
Part II of II – Conclusion
June 1998 Translation, Lectionary for Mass
Vol. IV, No. 4: July/August 1998
Vol. III, No. 3: May 1997
Bishops to See Revised Lectionary Translation in June by Staff
Vol. III, No. 5: July-August 1997
Enigma Variations: The Bishops’ Debate Over Liturgy Revisions
by Staff
Vol. II, No. 8: December 1996
NCCB Approves ICEL Revision of Roman Missal Bishops’ Vote Signals “The End of the Beginning” — by Helen Hull Hitchcock
New Liturgy Committee Head — Archbishop Jerome Hanus, OSB Elected to replace Bishop Donald Trautman as BCL chairman.
Vol. II, No. 7: November 1996
Bishops to Vote on ICEL’s Final Mass Revisions: Sacramentary Segments VII, VIII
June 1996, Liturgy, Translations
Vol. II, No. 4: July/August 1996
Liturgy Occupies Bishops at Spring Meeting
ICEL revisions of Roman Missal near comp
Vol. I, No. 2: December 1995
No Critics Need Apply
Bishops Approve Segment Four at November Meeting
by Richard Hough
Vol. I, No. 1: November 1995
ICEL Texts Face Resistance
Disaffection with Translation Widespread among Bishops
by Thomas M. Rearly
Originally printed in Voices (wf-f.org), Vol IX: Documentary Supplement
April 1994 — NCCB Debate on Liturgical Revisions What the bishops said…
This is a transcription of the US Bishops’ discussion in November 1993 of proposed new liturgical translations, translation principles, and the Grail Psalter-Inclusive Language Version (they did not approve this version of the Grail Psalter for liturgical use.)