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The Catholic Biblical NAB Lectionary Watch Resources on the lectionary and liturgical language:National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Criteria for the Evaluation of Inclusive Language Translations of Scriptural Texts Proposed for Liturgical Use. Nov. 15, 1990. Joseph Jensen, "Inclusive Language and the Bible," America, Nov. 5, 1994. Gerald P. Fogarty, "`The English Used in our Country' Bible Translations for U.S. Catholics," America, March 4, 1995, 10-16. Richard J. Clifford, "The Bishops, the Bible and Liturgical Language," America, May 27, 1995. Joseph Jensen, "Watch Your Language! Of Princes and Music Directors,"America, June 8, 1996. Richard J. Clifford, "The Rocky Road to the New Lectionary," America, August 16, 1997 It will be a sad day for Catholic biblical scholarship and even a sadder day for the pastoral life for the Church in the United States if the new Lectionary does not incorporate the principles of gender inclusive language. If biblical scholars from the fundamentalist tradition, who clearly revere the literal interpretation of the bible, employ gender inclusive language and Roman Catholics are denied that opportunity, there is not just a liturgical problem, there is an ecclesiological problem of great magnitude. It is the fear of many Catholic Scripture scholars that our new Lectionary will be called "inclusive" but in fact will offer only a tokenism, thus making the Lectionary inferior to existing non-Catholic translations.
From Bishop Donald Trautman, Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, S.T.D., S.S.L., "Liturgical and Biblical Texts for the Third Millennium: The Revised Sacramentary and Revised New American Bible Lectionary." Ronald D. Witherup, A Liturgist's Guide to Inclusive Language (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996).
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