Has the Catholic Church ever considered substitution of the "Peace Be With You" salutations in the Liturgy?

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I am not at home in the English translation of the liturgy, could you please state what Latin words at what place in the liturgy you think the Church should or might consider replacing?

Even without knowing what it is you exactly mean, I can give a general answer:

The Church has known several liturgical reform movements, and in 2000 years, given the number of Catholics, statistically you can be almost certain that any change in the liturgy must have been considered by some Catholics at some time. Maybe even a pope, a church teacher, an apostolic father, and so on.

But you ask if the church has considered this specific change. For context I think one should read Sacrosanctum Concilium, The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy by the Second Vatican Council. Paragraph 4 gives an indication to how the Church looks at the liturgy, and changes to any of the lawful rites: all reform must be seen “in the light of sound tradition”. A bit further it is explained that the liturgy is always an exercise of the priest Jesus Christ and of His Body, the Church.

This together may give some idea about how holy the liturgy is, but more, how much it is “from Christ”.

In paragraph 21 it explains how the liturgy has elements that can never be changed, and elements that must be changed according to the times.

I will not try to summarise the entire document, but it is very interesting reading material. It will give you an idea about the importance of the liturgy to the Church, and the great care that the Church takes in any reform of it.

What you should read in this document, I think, is that the liturgy is not something that is to be changed at will. Most of it is not to be changed at all, but it still is a temporal form of an eternal meaning. The temporal form can, may, and even must be adjusted to the times if it is necessary to convey the eternal meaning because the understanding of the people is always changing. But it is impossible to change the eternal meaning, because it is Jesus Christ who conveys that meaning, who is the priest and presbyter of the liturgy.

The catholic faith is not a matter of what we, as the Church, the body of Christ, are inclined to conclude, but of the eternal truth of the head of the Church, Jesus Christ. We may conclude that something is better fitting in the modern world, that something could better be replaced with something else, but that cannot be. And as we believe, we pray, lex orandi, lex credendi, we pray as we believe. The liturgy is eternal in what we believe as it is the highest form of our prayer.

So the chances that the Church has considered what you ask, especially based on the arguments you give, are small. As I said, I don’t know the English translation of the liturgy well enough to see what exactly you think might be reconsidered, but I have tried to find any evidence of the Church, in an ecumenical council, considering changes of the kind you refer to, and I haven’t found any.

That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, it only means I could find it, and I don’t expect to find it.

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