The new text is not ideologically motivated, but rather reflects natural developments in modern English usage, Chai Brady hears A new edition of the lectionary — the book from which Scripture is read at Mass — is close to the final draft for the Church in Ireland, marking the most significant liturgical Scripture revision in…
New lectionary includes ‘women’ and ‘sisters’
Archbishop Patrick O’Regan, Archbishop of Adelaide, Australia, Archbishop Francis Duffy, Archbishop of Tuam, Bishop Stephen Lowe, Bishop of Auckland and President of the New
Zealand Bishops Conference; Fr Neil Xavier O’Donoghue, and Fr Thomas, Paulist Fathers, Maynooth

Chai Brady