Liturgy may be ‘desexed’
NZPA London The Pope has approved a request by New Zealand bishops that eliminates socalled "sexist" language, from the liturgy. The New Zealand bishops had asked that the word "men" be omitted from the words of institution in the Eucharistic Prayer, “It will be shed for you and all men so that sins may be forgiven."
The London "Sunday Telegraph" said that the Pope’s decision, which will dismay conservative Catholics, follows up several years of pressure by feminist groups calling for the "desexism" of liturgical language. In 1975 an advisory committee of the • International Commission on English in the Liturgy resolved to recognise “the necessity in all future revisions to avoid words which ignore the place of women in the Christian community or which seem to relegate women to a secondary role."
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Press, 13 September 1982, Page 1
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