to reconsider the new translation. At the time there was open dissent from one parish in Seattle. The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland) put into effect the changes in the people's parts of the revised English translation of the Order of Mass from 28 November 2008, when the Missal as a whole was not yet available. Protests were voiced on grounds of content and because it meant that Southern Africa was thus out of line with other English-speaking countries. One bishop claimed that the English-speaking conferences should have withstood the Holy See's insistence on a more literal translation. However, when in February 2009 the Holy See declared that the change should have awaited completion of work on the Missal, the bishops conference appealed, with the result that those parishes that had adopted the new translation were directed to continue using it, while those that had not were told to await further instructions before doing so. In view of the foreseen opposition to making changes, the various English-speaking episcopal conferences arranged catechesis on the Mass and the Missal, and made information available also on the Internet. Other initiatives included the Catholic News Agency publishing a series of ten articles on the revised translation. Pope Francis' approach On 9 September 2017 Pope Francis issued the motu proprio Magnum Principium ("The Great Principle") which allowed local bishops' conferences more authority over translation of liturgical documents. The motu proprio "grants the episcopal conferences the faculty to judge the worth and coherence of one or another phrase in the translations from the original." The role of the Vatican is also modified in accord with the decree of Vatican II, to confirming texts already prepared by bishops' conferences, rather than "recognition" in the strict sense of Canon Law no. 838. See also Pontifical Missale Romanum Glagolitice Customary (liturgy) References Further reading An exploration of the changes to the English Roman Missal affecting English speaking Catholics as of the First Sunday of Advent in 2011. External links Online texts of editions of the Roman Missal Full texts of the Missale Romanum 2002 third typical Vatican II edition of the Roman Missal 1962 typical edition of the Roman Missal scanned in black and white (musicasacra.com) 1920 typical edition of the Roman Missal, with feasts updated to the late 1920s (musicasacra.com) Missale Romanum published by Pustet, 1894 (1884 typical edition) Roman Missal, published by Pustet,