Why does the New American Bible translate Luke 1:28 the way a Protestant would?
Robert Sungenis attributes the New American Bible rendering Luke 1:28 as "highly favored one" rather than "full of grace" to liberal scholarship, which he estimates at ninety percent in Catholic seminaries and universities. He argues the translators could have kept "full of grace" with a footnote on the Latin gratia plena, and calls their failure to do so very sad.
A viewer asks why the New American Bible translates Luke 1:28 ('highly favored one' rather than 'full of grace') the way a Protestant would.
Answer
Because they are like Protestants; that is why. These liberal scholars will look for the slightest excuse to go liberal, and there are a lot of liberal scholars in Catholicism, at least ninety percent in all the Catholic seminaries and universities, which means they will not give you the traditional understanding of Luke 1:28. They render it 'highly favored one,' never 'full of grace.' They could at least put 'full of grace' in the verse and add a footnote explaining that it comes from the Latin gratia plena and that the Greek could be translated another way, and then the reader would understand; but they do not, and it is sad, very sad.