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He made mention of "good will to men" being some inheritance of a infamously poor KJV translation but I was struck by the implications of these two very different groups of men.

"Men of good will" implies that we have something to do with it, thus nullifying a Calvinist approach.

The most glaring example he gave of the stripping away of the beauty and compressing flat the imagery and reverence and holiness. Speaking of "holy", by the way, he mentioned that "holy" had practically been purged from the translations whereas it appears throughout the old prayers.

Holy? Try finding the word "grace." Are you familiar with the Wanderer column "What does the prayer really say?"?

I'm not sure I've made note of the column ... though I'm guessing I must have read it at some point over the years (The Wanderer being a staple of my grandparents' pile of newspapers as well as offered at my parish.)

I will be sure to look for it.

Clearly, language is essential to the revolution ... just as are sex and particularly the same-sex relationship which is a direct rejection of Order and succumbing to the essentially dis-ordered.

As a Vatican II sort, I'm still blown away by how badly I was gypped.