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Words matter; especially the words of the sacraments

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Fr. Patrick Briscoe, OP - published on 02/20/22
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After WWII, Catholic intellectual Josef Pieper had significant things to say about language and its abuse.

In a popular children’s book, the main character decides, after discovering a golden pen, to begin to refer to pens exclusively as “frindles.” Rejecting his English teacher’s attempts to squash the word, “frindle” catches on. Carrying a quasi-revolutionary spirit, students across the nation refuse to use the word “pen.” The book’s epilogue concludes with the English teacher sending the inventor of the word “frindle” a dictionary, which included his newly-coined word.

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