I guarantee every informed Catholic around is going to be quite sure of what “ineffable” means.
I’m going to blog on yesterday’s USCCB proceedings, when I have time to absorb what went down. What puzzles me the most was why so many bishops were absent from the discussions. Was it discount admission day at Sea World? We’ve been over this terrain before, as well. I refer you back to an old thread at the old blog:

2) This “John and Mary Catholic” who haunt Bishop Trautman’s conscience are a worrisome pair. They are worrisome because of what they imply about a cleric’s view of the laity. As I have blogged and written before, many times, clerics and those in the church bureaucracy need to get their stories straight. Are we “the most highly educated laity in the history of the church” capable of making our moral decisions all on our own, without substantive Church guidance..or are we idiots who can’t figure out what “dew” is?

Make up you minds.

I would gently suggest that those who are worried about translations, who don’t like the more elevated tone, not rely on the “the laity are too stupid to understand this” line of argumentation. There are, indeed, legitmate ways to discuss a translation and its fittingness, but this, in the end, is going to come back to bite you. Why? Well, because if it begs the simple question. If the laity can’t understand theological concepts expressed in slightly elevated or layered ways, could it be because no one’s bothered to teach them?

As they say..you get what you pay for.

I’d also refer you to a old post, occasioned by the same disdainful episcopal account of “John and Mary Catholic”, by the decidedly non-combative Julie D. of Happy Catholic. This one got her going.

So add your two cents while I’m reading up on the events.