Why do English-speaking Catholics say 'descended into hell' instead of 'descended into Hades' or 'into Sheol'?
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This article states that
> In the context of the Apostles’ Creed, hell does not mean what we
> understand by the word today. The Catechism of the Catholic Church
> explains this point as follows: “Scripture calls the abode of the
> dead, to which the dead Christ went down, “hell”—Sheol-- in Hebrew or
> Hades in Greek—because those who are there are deprived of the vision
> of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous,
> while they await the redeemer (no. 633).
If this is correct, this leads to the question: why is the word 'hell' used if it's not what is meant by 'hell' today? Why, instead, don't English-speaking Catholics say 'Hades' or 'Sheol' to make the meaning of the Apostles' Creed more clear?
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