VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130614.html][img=images/2013/06/pic130614.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Language is [i]so[/i] important. The [url=http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/06/oed-june-2013-update/]new OED[/url] has all sorts of new words and phrases, like "fiscal cliff", "tweet" and "crowdsourcing". If you listened to Today yesterday, you'd have heard a really peak item that was well hard sto. 

New language is nothing new. New language began in the 16th century when William Tyndale translated the Big Book of Magic Stuff from Latin into English. This was full of beautiful new idioms, hundreds of which are in common usage even today. The Catholic Church naturally had him burned at the stake for such dangerous innovation [i][Update - see comments section][/i].

Nowadays we don't burn people at the stake for not worshipping the Invisible Magic Friend in Latin. It's just part of the easy going, non-judgemental, modern, cuddly Catholic Church. However, we do still have arguments about liturgy. You're probably unaware of the [url=http://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/468/26]arguments over the new translation[/url] of the mass. Pope Benny, the retired pope before Pope Frankie, thought we'd all been getting a bit too familiar with the Invisible Magic Friend over the past 50 years. He decided that Jesus wouldn't have had a "cup" at the last supper. If he was going to do some proper transubstantiation and pass the magic power down through the apostolic succession, then he'd obviously have brought a "chalice" along to do the trick.

The fuss over the new missal, which I'm sure you all find fascinating, has been politicised as a clash between modernisers and conservatives. Far be it from me to use my privileged, unchallengeable views on Thought For The Day to express my opinion, but the new translation is just rubbish. It's totally whack.

You can't really describe the Invisible Magic Friend in English anyway. He's just so... so... so... Invisible!

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