The Vatican - Pope removes 'anti-Semitic' text from prayer

The Pope Benedict XVI

The Pope is to rewrite the Good Friday prayer in the traditional Latin Missal to remove derogatory references to Jews after protests that they could damage relations between the faiths.

The Pope has been under pressure to change the wording of the prayer since he permitted the widespread use of the Tridentine Rite in the 1962 Latin Missal last year.

The prayer in the rite's Good Friday liturgy reads: "Almightily and everlasting God, you do not refuse your mercy even to the Jews; hear the prayers which we offer for the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of your truth, which is Christ, and be delivered from their darkness."

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Date: Feb 5, 2008

By Jonathan Petrel

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