THE religion of Vatican II in the 1960s replaced the “Holy Ghost,” a term used for centuries by the Catholic Church, with the “Holy Spirit.”

Was this an insignificant change of words?

No, it was not. It was a very significant part of a spiritual cataclysm. “Holy Spirit” embraces New Age concepts, ancient misconceptions really about the nature of God.

Teresa Stanfill Benns writes at Betrayed Catholics:

“The Church had grave reasons indeed for mandating the use of Holy Ghost in the English language, particularly in prayer and the Sacraments when administered in English: to eliminate the possibility of error in reference to this blasphemous and heretical idea of spirit. The use of Holy Spirit versus Holy Ghost began to creep into Catholic missals and prayer books in English in the 1940s, 1950s. In his work New Age Bible Versions, G.A. Riplinger contrasted newly translated biblical texts to the King James and (in some instances) the Douay-Rheims versions. He concluded that all these modern translations have replaced ‘Holy Ghost’ with ‘Holy Spirit’ in key passages, a change arising, he said, ‘from ecumenical practices.’ He cited the rebuke from Job 26:4 to those who were moved, not of the holy Spirit of God, but by their ‘human spirit;’ and also referred these changes to Gal. 3:5 and Cor. 2:11 which mention ‘unclean spirits.’ This affords us further insight into what may be intended by the Novus Ordo usage.”

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