A person in the Catholic Church who works to destroy the Mass by introducing innovations such as hand-holding and bad translations.
"Lit" comes from liturgy. "-
nik" comes from russian. As in "sputnik." It's also been used in words like beatnik, refusenik and no-good-
nik. In any case, it is a derogatory term used by Traditional Catholics towards the liberals who have ruined the Church over the past
40 years with their
stupid changes to the Mass.