Concerns rise about anti-Semitic mass
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VATICAN CITY, June 30 Some of the world's top Catholic leaders are expressing concern about the pope's plan to bring back a 400-year-old prayer that insults Jews.
Pope Benedict XVI has announced his intent to publish a new version of the 16th century Latin Tridentine Mass, which said Jews live in "blindness" and "darkness."
The mass was rewritten in 1960s to include the word "perfidious" and has been little used since then, the newspaper said.
The pope's reintroduction of the mass has some bishops and cardinals worried it could harm the church's relationship with Jews. British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor reportedly wrote to the pope, asking him to leave the anti-Semitic mass on the shelf.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone told the Independent the mass is considered a "great treasure of the church."
The newspaper said the move could be an effort by the pope to bring conservative and ultra-traditional Catholic groups back into the fold. Copyright 2007 by UPI
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Christianity and Judaism
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Frederick Jones ,
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:26:48 GMT
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It is the older version which uses the work perfidious from the Latin perfidiam. You have got it the wrong way round and in any case the word ,like gay ,has acquired another meaning since first used. It initially meant without the faith. The Book of Common Prayer, which is the official standard of faith in the Church of England, prays on Good Friday for all "Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks".The Latin Rite and the BCP both acknowledge real differences, even though the wording could be greatly improved. Only fanatics would get excited, my Jewish friends and relatives dont.
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Errata
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Atty. Tom Johnson ,
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:51:01 GMT
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This article contain a number of serious errors.
The Tridentine Mass has been in use continuously within the Church since the 1960's, although it is far less common than the Mass of Paul VI (the so-called "Novus Ordo"), and there are a number of orders that offer the Tridentine Mass exclusively.
The references to the Jews referred to relate back to the prayers for the Jews originally contained in the Tridentine liturgy of Good Friday. Those prayers were re-written during the reign of Pius XII and the re-written prayers officially became part of the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal promulgated by John XXIII. Furthermore, the word originally used was not "perfidious." It was "perfidis" ("faithless" in Latin).
Neither that word nor that prayer was "added" in the 1962 Missal (which is the only Tridentine Missal permitted to be used since that year). Rather, the use of that word was suppressed in that edition and it has not been used since then.
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