My current WIP includes references to God in the form of pronouns (e.g., you, your, he, etc.) primarily when used in prayer. It turns out that well-informed Catholics do not capitalize these pronouns. Neither does the Catechism (the definitive book on Church teaching) and most if not all approved Catholic Bibles.
Here's the tricky part. Many Catholics are not familiar with these rules and expect them to be capitalized. Capitalizing of these pronouns comes largely from Protestants, so there is a great deal of confusion. My target audience is Catholics, then other Christians with a curiosity about the Church, then simple heathens who want to read a supernatural thriller.
I've generally decided that when it came to Catholic elements to the story that I would not stop for info dumps to explain things that Catholics should already know, such as the Catechism. But as for capitalization of pronouns, many of my readers so far expect capitalization. I expect that will be true of the majority of potential readers.
I'm curious what this group recommends about how to proceed. I've now gone both ways and am considering gong back to lowercase. It may be necessary to include a note in the front of the book explaining this. I had one in my content summary, but few bothered to read it.
Thoughts?
Thanks
Dirk
