Hear, hear …

… Vandals, Leave the Hymns Alone - The Catholic Thing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… why do the editors of Catholic hymnals play the blockhead, and mangle good poetry, to get rid of pronouns that we understand and that remain in the Mass and the Rosary anyway?  Maybe they are allergic to the sacral – a subject for another day.  As far as the hymns go, it’s irrelevant.  A hymn is a work of art and should be left in its integrity, or, if touched lightly, touched only by artists, not by committees, not by people with a linguistic agenda, and not by blockheads.

Because, like many self-styled intellectuals, they think the common people are as ignorant as they are, forgetting that for several centuries, the King James Bible was often the only book people read.