I don't always agree with 'my side' and they don't always agree with me...I am not looking for the exception to prove that always does not mean always....
The point is that your magisterium knows exactly what co means 95% of the time and they use it anyway instead of correcting it with the actual Latin translationj...
And of course let us not forget that group of Catholics, what is it, about 4 million strong, who have a permanent petition with the Vatican to include Mary into the Trinity making it a Quadrinity...
(1) Anybody who thinks the Catholic Church has anything resembling control over their use of the English language has but to look at the [shudder] NAB. I call it the Yoda translation. It is neither faithful to the source nor fluent English. In a perverse way, it’s kind of an accomplishment. I think that no matter how hard I tried I could never miss the mark as consistently as they did.
(2). I doubt that 40% of us are that wacked out. I could see 400,000. But we tolerate those who appear to be tares. They’ve been known to be turned into wheat at the last moment. I’ll only panic when PapaBenXVI shows them anything more than courtesy.