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The Catholic Register<\/em> reports that the Vatican has given its recognitio<\/em><\/a> to the NRSV lectionary used in Canada, which contains inclusive language. The masculine pronoun \u201cHe\u201d refers to God in the lectionary, but inclusive language is used in passages that refer to the people. Here\u2019s a section of The Catholic Register<\/em>\u2018s article:<\/p>\n

TORONTO, Canada (The Catholic Register) \u2013 Eighteen years into a sometimes divisive debate, the Vatican has put a final stamp of approval on the Canadian lectionary \u2013 granting a recognitio to the inclusive language of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible in English.
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\nCanadians have been reading the NRSV at Mass since 1992, when the first edition of the new Sunday lectionary was published with approval from the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The Canadian NRSV lectionary for weekdays was published in 1994. It was only then that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith objected to NRSV translations.<\/p>\n

The NRSV uses inclusive language, referring to both men and women, when the text refers to people. References to God in the NRSV use the pronoun \u201cHe.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Pauline letters, this sometimes results in forms of address to a group of people which reads \u201cBrothers\u201d in Greek rendered \u201cBrothers and Sisters\u201d in the NRSV.<\/p>\n

Without the recognitio, Canadian Mass texts were left in the position of being the only approved texts for English-language Masses in Canada, but at the same time lacking final Vatican approval. At World Youth Day in 2002, Pope John Paul II used the Canadian lectionary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main issue was not the question of inclusive language,\u201d Archbishop James Weisgerber, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops vice president, told The Catholic Register.<\/p>\n

The Vatican\u2019s concern over NRSV translations has been a matter of technical issues and accuracy, said Archbishop Weisgerber.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a concern that when you try to make the scriptures speak inclusively it\u2019s important to be accurate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A special committee of Canadian bishops has been meeting regularly with Vatican officials working on the details of the text since 2003. With the recognitio in place, the bishops can begin publishing a second edition to the books already in use, starting with Year B, Nov. 30, 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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