Monday, July 02, 2007

Jerusalem Post: Pope to Revive 'Anti-Semitic' Mass

The Vatican is expected to publish this week a document authorizing the use of a controversial Latin Mass, parts of which are deemed anti-Semitic, the Holy See announced Thursday.
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The 16th-century Tridentine Mass - recited every Good Friday - refers to Jews as "perfidious," and claims they live in "blindness" and "darkness." The Mass prays that God might "take the veil from their hearts" so that Jews can come to acknowledge Jesus Christ.

Rev. Keith Pecklers, an expert on Jesuit liturgy, told the Independent that elements in the Church who embraced the old Mass tended to oppose "collaboration with other Christians and [the Church's] dialogue with Jews and Muslims." [my emphasis]
What is Jesuit liturgy?

And is there a "Mass" on Good Friday? Excellent reporting, isn't it?

This really is nothing more than a 'hit piece', it seems to me...


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