[geocentrism] The Simon Wiesenthal Center
- From: "philip madsen" <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "geocentrism list" <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:14:57 +1000
for your interest The pressure is increasing.. and guess from whom.. and
note how the New Vatican jumps to the command. Philip
>> Wiesenthal Center urges Vatican to quickly remove offensive prayer
>>
>> By Haaretz
>>
>> Jewish groups welcomed the Vatican's suggestion that a highly
>> controversial prayer for the conversion of Jews could be dropped from a
>> revived Latin rite, urging it to do so quickly.
>>
>> The Simon Wiesenthal Center said in statement on Friday that the prayer
>> "considered offensive and dangerous to Jews" could be interpreted by some
>> as justifying anti-Semitism.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed comments by the
>> Vatican's No. 2 official on Wednesday indicating that the prayer could be
>> dropped from the re-introduced Latin-language rite.
>>
>> Speaking at a news conference, Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal
>> Tarcisio Bertone, said "we could simply study" the possibility of
>> substituting the prayer.
>>
>> The Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper said traditionalist Catholic
>> groups like the Society of Saint Pius X, which has campaigned for the
>> return of Latin Mass, continued to blame Jews for the death of Jesus and
>> preached "classic anti-Semitic themes as part of their religious message."
>>
>> "By acting quickly and decisively to embrace the current form of the
>> prayer to be used exclusively in all languages - including Latin - the
>> Vatican could make it abundantly clear that no group that wishes to come
>> back to the good graces of the Church will be welcome without leaving
>> theologically based anti-Semitism behind," he said.
>>
>> "We appreciate (Bertone's) statement ... making it clear that efforts will
>> be made to replace the disturbing Good Friday prayer for Jewish
>> conversion," said Rabbi David Rosen, who is in charge of interfaith
>> relations at the AJC.
>>
>> Rosen said in a statement that, contrary to the criticism that painted the
>> pope's decision as a retreat from advances in Catholic-Jewish relations,
>> this clarification in effect confirms those strides and even advances
>> them.
>>
>> The Pius X society, which claims one million members, split with Rome
>> after the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s which, among other reforms,
>> jettisoned Latin rites in favour of local languages.
>>
>> The Pope's decision to allow priests to say the old Latin Mass more
>> frequently is in part aimed at healing the rift with traditionalists.
>>
>> ONLY SOLUTION: remove one word from the Good Friday Latin liturgy:
>> "perfidus"
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