"Rather, the better thing would be to have the liturgy in a long-lasting, reverent language, and to allow priests in their homilies to adapt that to the idiom of the people."
Well they tried that and wound up with a Church almost universally ignorant of the Bible.
It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
... not "out of the mouth of a priest".
Yes, the problem isn't that "hip" language is used. The problem is that they have completely failed to convey the meaning.
"The Lord is all that"
How does that convery the sense that following the Lord safely provides everything we need?
For crying out loud, even "The Lord is my Sugar-Daddy" would at least PARTIALLY convey the meaning...
Oh, and 10:1 the priest is white. His translation is way too gay (=lame) to actually BE hip-hop. (And that says a LOT!) Please, if you're going to try to translate the bible into hip-hop, at least get a talented wordsmith? I hear Eminem wants to be "more respectable" for his daughter.
I'm not sure what you're referring to.