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My wife is making a big deal of this article. Using it as an example "why she would never convert to Catholicism... including the Eastern Catholics" (from being an OO convert), concerning the "Inclusive language" part. I was hoping to get some feed back on it.


http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=12-04-110-r

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Wow! And Ss Cyril and Methodius did it without a laptop. The groundwork was definitely don in faithful Eastern custom, organically from the grassroots up. A century after they began the experts are reviewing the evidence. I guess those forensic investigation TV programs had an effect on us as a society.

The important thing is that they are talking inclusively not exclusively. No one said they had the answer. It always amused me the Ukrainian Orthodox print their prayer books locally in archaic English on one side and vernacular Ukrainian along side on the same page. Inclusive language I would say should reflect inclusive partnership, we are culturally Christian not Islamic. While we are at it they should have given credit to the evangelicals for the real pioneering of English translations of our hymns. Musicality, didn�t we use to say if the music is good the rest will follow?

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Alas, Dr. Tighe's account of that symposium is not altogether reliable. The actual papers were published in Logos (Ottawa); perhaps your wife should read them.

Fr. Serge

I'm Addai's wife. The part of the report I was referring to was the "gender inclusive language." There is a whole forum on this board dedicated to debate over its use in Eastern Catholic liturgies, with most of those speaking in support seeming to be clergy. So regardless of whether one takes issue with some of Dr. Tighe's characterizations, the impressions he had regarding that aspect of the conference would seem to be confirmed.

...A very small (but obviously influential) group of the clergy and women monastics. Most of the Eastern Catholic clergy do not support the use of 'gender inclusive language'.

Nick