Pope revives mass calling for Jews to ‘be delivered from their darkness’
The head of the Roman Catholic Church formally
removed restrictions on celebrating an old form of the Latin mass which includes
prayers calling for the Jews to ‘be delivered from their
darkness’.
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Jewish leaders and community groups criticised Pope Benedict XVI strongly yesterday after the head of the Roman Catholic Church formally removed restrictions on celebrating an old form of the Latin mass which includes prayers calling for the Jews to ‘be delivered from their darkness’ and converted to Catholicism.
The older rite’s prayers calling on God to ‘lift the veil from the eyes’ of the Jews and to end ‘the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of your truth, which is Christ’ - used just once a year during the Good Friday service - have sparked outrage.
The Pope also sparked bewilderment when he made no mention of anti-Semitism, or the fact that the Nazis killed millions of people because they were Jewish, in a speech last year at Auschwitz. He also failed to acknowledge that there might be some degree of collective responsibility of the German people.
I could care less how any organized superstition cares to manage their ideology. But, when their politics pander to elitism and ethnic hatred, that must be recognized and opposed. Within and without.
Posted: Sun - July 8, 2007 at 11:24 AM