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?