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Thee, Thou and Thine - Cultural Artifacts

+ JMJ One of the many noticeable difference between "Modern" and "Traditional" Catholics is their word selection when praying. Most noticeable are the absence of Thee, Thou, Thy and Thine in their core prayers. Here's really the key paragraph from the Wiki article: Early English translations of the Bible used the familiar singular form of the second person, which mirrors common usage trends in other languages. The familiar and singular form is used when speaking to God in French (in Protestantism both in past and present, in Catholicism since the post- Vatican II reforms) , German , Spanish , Italian , Portuguese , Ukrainian , Russian , Yiddish , Turkish , Lithuanian , and Scottish Gaelic (all of which maintain the use of an "informal" singular form of the second person in modern speech). So basically, after Vatican II, the Catholic Church went "protestant' and adopted the 'familiar singular' language to accomp

Chronicle: No Death to the Doctrinal Crisis

+ JMJ While the McCarrick affair has the media attention, what is swept under the carpet is the doctrinal foundation of this crisis. The "dignity of man", which is the new center of the Catholic Church post-V2, is nothing more than the Liberalism that Leo XIII et al condemned a couple hundred years ago. In the name this dignity. we have a new: Relationship with God Liturgy to express that relationship Doctrine to codify that relationship ... I thing you get the point, this 'new orientation' is simply a re-orientation of the Church away from Jesus Christ (ie God) towards man. So if a man has a problem, we must protect their dignity ... Well how is that working for the Church in V2? Answer: Not very well! P^3 Courtesy of SSPX.org No Death to the Doctrinal Crisis August 27, 2018 fsspx.news Earlier this month, on August 2, 2018, an amendment to the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) was published. The text, which