ROME (JTA) – Pope Francis has restricted the use of the Latin Mass, a form of the liturgy favored by traditionalist Catholics that calls for the conversion of the Jews and that until 2008 included a reference to Jewish “blindness.”
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Francis’ declaration on Friday is a repudiation of an earlier decree by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who in 2007 made it easier to use the Latin Mass. At the time of that declaration, Jewish groups expressed concern because the Latin Mass recited on Good Friday included a “prayer for the Jews” that called for their conversion to Christianity and referred to the Jews’ “blindness.”
Jewish groups worried at the time that Benedict’s decision signified a retreat from the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, which declared in a 1965 document known as “Nostra Aetate” that the Jews were not guilty of killing Jesus, and condemned antisemitism. Accusations that the Jews killed Jesus have long motivated antisemitic attacks.
In 2008, Benedict reaffirmed his commitment to Nostra Aetate and omitted the word “blindness” from the Good Friday prayer.
hot dog, after all those centuries of demonizing the Jews, the Catholic Church is going to cut down on it.
oh yay, yet the guy still backs communism and the terrorists. He also believes we should destroy our economy to save us from “climate change” and that we shouldnt stop people from illegaly entering our country.
This galach is part of a religion that slaughtered and murdered us for 2000 years. You must denounce your blood soaked relgion once and for all.
And you ancestors the Romans, were the first ever to mass murder us and sell us slaves. never did we have such an atrocity. 1.1M jews just by the churban. Streets of jerusalim were soaked with blood as your ancestors walked in blood till their ankles to destroy our temple. And it didn’t stop there , they then had this sport to kill jews and make shows mocking us as you killed us for tens maybe 100 years. This is all documented in Josephus and not some fairly tale., You rotten people made our blood cheap. The nazis learned form your religon and ancestors. Shame on you.