Good Friday prayer rewritten.(WORLD BRIEFS)(Brief article)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: February 22, 2008 | Copyright information

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has reformulated a Good Friday prayer, removing language about the "blindness" of the Jews but preserving a call for their conversion, The new prayer replaces the one contained in the 1962 Roman Missal, sometimes called the Tridentine rite or Latin Mass. Benedict reauthorized use of this rite last year.

The new formulation was published Feb. 5 on the fr...

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