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It seems like most Catholics do not grasp how
insidiously the pollution called inclusive language
has infiltrated into our worship and how its use
is still growing — like a cancer.
Years ago, it was promoted
overtly by the American Catholic hierarchy, but
it seems to have taken a hidden, creeping, crabgrass-like
growth that is being promoted from the ground-up.
Last Sunday, I was attending
mass at a prominent Basilica and I noticed that
this one woman near me audibly injected the word
God instead of the word Him in a response. The
priest, who was celebrating the mass, did the
same thing earlier while reading the Gospel.
I wonder what these and like-minded
“Catholics” are trying to accomplish?
Who are they trying to please besides themselves?
… God?
It reminds me of a ridiculous
and borderline, sacrilegious incident I witnessed
at mass years ago; a lectorette, doing the second
reading from one of Paul’s letters, in a
booming voice, read, “Husbands love your
wives!” She then whispered into the microphone,
“Wives, obey your husbands.”
The only reason I did not stand
up and yell “what was that last sentence!”
is that would have further denigrated the sanctity
of mass, which had been degraded enough. Obviously,
this nauseating editing of Scriptures has no place
in the Catholic Church and is a serious problem
that needs to be identified, addressed and effectively
dealt with.
Would God find this egotistical
and pharisaic nonsense pleasing?
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