Jewish leaders disappointed over Good Friday prayers: CEN 2.06.08 February 6, 2008
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| THE RETENTION of prayers calling for the conversion of the Jews in the Roman Catholic Church’s Good Friday prayers is a matter of grave disappointment, Jewish leaders tell Religious Intelligence.
On Tuesday the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published on its front page the Latin text of the revised Good Friday liturgy for congregations using the traditional “Tridentine” Latin-language rite, reauthorized for use in July by Pope Benedict XVI. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper’s Religious Intelligence section. |
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It does not say anything negative. It does not say the Jews have to convert. It does not imply any problem — just that the Jews should have their eyes enlightened. It is a preview of things to come, but the question is, what are the things to come? Those who wish a greater reconciliation between Jews and Catholics are deeply hurt. They have had 40 years of forward momentum, but there may be no more.