Vatican modifies prayer for Jews; 'Negative' language removed.(NATION)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: February 6, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A Catholic Good Friday prayer from the pre-Vatican II Tridentine Mass will no longer ask that God "remove the veil from the hearts" of Jews, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said yesterday.

It will also drop an allusion to Jewish "blindness" and forgo a passage asking that Jews "be delivered from their darkness." A new prayer, released Monday by the Vatican, still asks that Jews "acknowledge Jesus Christ."

The Rev. James Massa, executive director for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical ...

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