In England, Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith has urged Catholics to throw out jargon and communicate the truth simply and he says some neologisms “have a certain charm or energy to them. Others are ugly, lazy or debased and come, all too often, from America… But there is another community of speakers who seem to enjoy scraping the marble cladding off the language of Shakespeare and reducing it to brick. I mean, of course, the Catholic Church. This is one Romanist conspiracy that is sadly all too real.”
He gives 10 examples of Catholic-speak that he says should be banned. Continue reading