Word: vernacularized
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...updated every generation as language changes. For the first time, U.S. Roman Catholics are now finding out what this theory means in practice (Protestants, by comparison, have had the racy J. B. Phillips version since 1958, and the New English Bible since 1961). When they adopted the vernacular Mass last fall, with Epistle and Gospel readings in English instead of Latin, the U.S. hierarchy took their texts from the still unfinished Confraternity Bible-and have been hearing about it ever since...
...American Catholics and seduced the bishops in Rome." De Pauw hinted that these theological liberals were also flirting with heresy by downgrading the authority of the Pope and devotion to Mary. To counteract these tendencies, he said, his movement is urging the bishops to limit the number of vernacular Masses and take a national referendum on Catholic opinion about the liturgical changes...
...contingent from Fleet Street was, in The Times of London's words, "ready to pounce at the drop of a swastika," no Fascists showed up-though Spoiler Jordan sent an agent in blackface to the Leyton town hall, where the interloper declared himself, in crude parody of Negro vernacular, to be "de noo candidate, Walker Gordon." And though everyone was protesting that race was not an issue in Leyton, the BBC hastily canceled a television screening of a play called Fable, which shows a future Britain ruled by colored people, in which whites are the victims of minority discrimination...
...becoming so firmly rooted in parish practice that there is neither surprise nor scandal when Roman Catholics join Episcopalians for a service at Cambridge's Christ Church to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent. Liturgy is also bringing the churches together, as Catholics switch to the vernacular and Protestants increasingly
Miller, a white man who lived in Harlem for five years, has mastered the vernacular, which in its own way is as eccentric as Uncle Remus'. He has also distinguished the different Harlem personality types-his way of saying that Negroes are people, too. And he has managed to show that even the nation's No. 1 problem is good for an occasional laugh...