2008-03-23 Olde Tyme Religion
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German Jewish leader criticizes Pope over prayer
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The leader of Germany's Jewish community said on Friday she was surprised Pope Benedict could have allowed a new version of a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews.
It's a Catholic thing. You wouldn't understand. | Charlotte Knobloch,
president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Reuters Television she could not fathom Pope Benedict putting forward the new decree because he experienced discrimination against Jews in Germany as a young man. "I would have assumed that this German pope, of all people, had got to know first hand the ostracizing of Jewry," she said. "I could not have imagined that this same German pope could now impose such phrases upon his church."
Sorry. I don't have a dog in the fight, but it seems they've been saying the same prayer for a coupla thousand years. It hasn't worked, but it's a reasonable request of the Lord. By the Pope's lights, what they're asking for is a good thing for the Jews. And there's no "or else" involved with it. | Jewish groups complained last year when the Pope issued a decree allowing wider use of the old-style Latin Mass and a missal, or prayer book, that was phased out after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which met from 1962 to 1965. They protested against the re-introduction of the old prayer for conversion of the Jews and asked the Pope to change it.
Beats the hell out of "Death to the infidels! Kill the Joos!" | The Vatican last month revised the contested Latin prayer used by a traditionalist minority on Good Friday, the day marking Jesus Christ's crucifixion, removing a reference to Jewish "blindness" over Christ and deleting a phrase asking God to "remove the veil from their hearts". Jews criticized the new version because it still says they should recognize Jesus Christ as the savior of all men. It asks that "all Israel may be saved" and Jews say it keeps an underlying call to conversion that they had wanted removed.
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