ADL slams Vatican over revised prayer for conversion of Jews - Haaretz - Israel News
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ADL slams Vatican over revised prayer for conversion of Jews - Haaretz, February 7, 2008
The Vatican has come under fire from Jewish groups in recent days for changing its Good Friday service to include a prayer urging God to let Jews “recognize Jesus Christ as savior of all men.”
Earlier this week, Pope Benedict ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at traditionalist Good Friday services, deleting a reference to their “blindness” over Christ.
But the Anti-Defamation League has called the changes “cosmetic revisions,” saying that the prayer is still “deeply troubling” because of its call to convert Jews.
Apart from the deletion of the word “blindness,” the new prayer - which has retained the name Prayer for Conversion of the Jews - also excludes a former a phrase that asked God to “remove the veil from their hearts”.