The prayer in the rite's Good Friday liturgy reads: "Almightly 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."
The German-based International Council for Christians and Jews wrote to the Pope last year complaining that such language was "profoundly demeaning".
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Pope Removes 'anti-Semitic' Text From Prayer
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I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you place this in the humour category
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
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I did too but i have a sick sense of humour
o? does this mean I've got carte Blanche on
where *I*
pput my submissions here ?
Hope so!
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
Not quite, Hombre! But this one fit.
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