Jews debate anti-gentile prayers.(WORLD)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: March 21, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Tensions between Catholics and Jews over a Good Friday prayer in the Latin Tridentine Mass have caused some Jews to take a harder look at their own exclusive prayers and to ask whether Catholics are getting a lopsided share of blame.

For instance, after the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations petitioned the Vatican to remove the Good Friday prayer, which calls for conversion of the Jews, Jeffrey Weiss wondered on The Dallas Morning News' Religion Blog how the Catholic church's claim of exclusivity was any worse than "the traditional Jewish claim ...

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