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The ICEL Psalter is a 20th-century translation of the
Book of Psalms The Book of Psalms ( , ; ; ; ; , in Islam also called Zabur, ), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament. The book is an anthology of ...
, translated by the
International Commission on English in the Liturgy The International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) is a commission set up by a number of episcopal conferences of English-speaking countries for the purpose of providing English translations of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite, ...
(ICEL). The psalter was published by Liturgical Training Publications in 1995 with the ''
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'' of Cardinal
William Henry Keeler William Henry Keeler (March 4, 1931 – March 23, 2017) was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1989 to 2007 and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1994. He previously ser ...
. The approval of Keeler, the president of the
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, paved the way for its use in Roman Catholic liturgy in the US. Because of controversies surrounding ICEL's use of
dynamic equivalence Dynamic equivalence and formal equivalence, in translation and semantics, are the principle approaches to translation, prioritizing respectively the Meaning (linguistics), meaning or the literal translation, literal structure of the source text ...
and gender-inclusive language, by order of Cardinal
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, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, the ''imprimatur'' was revoked in 1998 by Bishop Anthony Pilla.


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