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Date: October 10, 2007 10:54:24 AM PDT
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Subject: Cardinal calls for Jews to stop calling Jesus a bastard
Cardinal calls for Jews to stop calling Jesus a bastard
By Ben Martin
Last Updated: 12:14am BST 06/10/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/06/
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A senior American cardinal has asked Jews to reconsider
descriptions of Jesus as a "bastard," in exchange for a softening
of traditional Catholic prayers calling for Jews to be converted to
Christianity.
The controversial comments, by Cardinal Francis George of the
Archdiocese of Chicago, concern a prayer said during Easter
celebrations by the small number of parishes or priests who
celebrate a particular form of Good Friday mass.
Those version of Good Friday prayers calls for the congregation to
pray for Jews to be converted to Christianity.
But Cardinal George said this prayer should be amended to ensure it
did not offend Jews.
"I suspect (the amendment) probably will be (made), because the
intention is to be sure that our prayers are not offensive to the
Jewish people who are our ancestors in the faith," Cardinal George
said in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter.
"We can't possibly insult them in our liturgy … not that any group
has a veto on anybody's prayers, because you can go through Jewish
texts and find material that is offensive to us. But if we're
interested in keeping the dialogue strong, and we have to be, we
should be very cautious about any prayer that they find insulting."
But this should mean that Jews, in turn, consider amending their
own religious texts, he said.
"It works both ways. This is an opening to say, 'Would you care to
look at the Talmudic literature's description of Jesus as a
bastard, and so on, and maybe make a few changes there?'"
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