You’re behind the times.  This became popular at least 20 years ago.

I noticed butter sculpture bunnies replacing the lamb.  I notice four leaf clover replacing the Shamrock.  I see "saint" being dropped from St Valentine's Day. 
In schools God and bible replaced with liberalism and sɛҳuąƖ abuse grooming.  Christianity is under attack.  We need to pray and stand up for the Catholic faith. 

I noticed butter sculpture bunnies replacing the lamb.  I notice four leaf clover replacing the Shamrock.  I see "saint" being dropped from St Valentine's Day.
In schools God and bible replaced with liberalism and sɛҳuąƖ abuse grooming.  Christianity is under attack.  We need to pray and stand up for the Catholic faith.

To be honest, the only ones I know to say "St. Valentine's Day" are the Spanish and French speaking peoples.
"Feliz dia de San Valentin" and "Joyeux fête de Saint Valentine", respectively. Almost never said in English. Only by serious Catholics.

Never noticed it Dolores, shows you it came in without a whisper of objection.
Any idea WHO started it, Soros?

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I noticed this creeping into school textbooks about 15 or 20 years ago. At the time I followed the trail to what appeared to be Jєωs in academia promoting the notion that if you disagree with their opinion you must be "anti-Semitic" and that's how they discouraged opposition.
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Scientists and historians revised new publications making "BC" (Before Christ) and "AD" (Anno Domini = The Year of Our Lord in Latin) obsolete, attaching an implication of animosity towards non-Catholics. IOW in the spirit of Vat.II (the unclean spirit of Vat.II) the whole world wants to become on friendly terms with pagans, Jєωs, Protestants and others outside the Church.
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But the primary drivers of this change seem to me to be Jєωs, many of whom are admittedly atheist.
Consequently, the deference for secular sentiments divorced from any hint of religious attachments.
They want to evoke a new language that automatically denounces anyone who refuses to adopt it.
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To be honest, the only ones I know to say "St. Valentine's Day" are the Spanish and French speaking peoples.
"Feliz dia de San Valentin" and "Joyeux fête de Saint Valentine", respectively. Almost never said in English. Only by serious Catholics.

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There is one more survivor of the Catholic tradition in the West: Saint Patrick.
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Everyone who refers to it says "St. Patrick's Day" and never Patrick's Day.
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In England they still say "Saint George" (Patron saint of England). 
In New England, Lake St. George used to be known as Lake of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Today it is still 2018 because the Catholic Church says so.

Another sneaky change in Ireland was to the Post Offices Wedding stamp. It used to be a beautiful wedding picture of bride and groom. After the 'Catholic' Irish voted in queer 'marriage' they stopped printing the bride/groom picture and put in two EXACT SAME LOVE-DOVES instead. This happened without one comment in the media or elsewhere.

As Matthew said, it must gall them to know 2018 is the number of years after Christ, no matterb CE or AD. They are falling overboard here to bring in as many Muslims as they can in order to kill off Ireland as 'Christian.' Do Muslims have a year calendar beginning with the year Mohammed was born? 

RTE TV still have the Angelus but it has changed over the last few years from a religious Angelus to a secular human time-call. Only yesterday we saw they have kind of cartoon gestures of clown-like people while the bells ring. There are endless calls to have it stopped under the pretext that it offends other religions.

By the way Matthew, my latest grandson was called Matthew, after St Matthew of course.