Ashley Flaherty/ February 28,2008 12:09pm/ Religious Conflict
Conservative Judaism's international assembly of rabbis says in a resolution to be voted on next week concerning the revision of a Good Friday prayer approved by Pope Benedict XVI. Which in turn would set back the Jewish-Catholic relations. The prayer revision calls for God to enlighten the Jews so that they may acknowledge Jesus Christ , the savior of all men. This revised prayer shows a lot of disrespect to the Jewish beliefs. This would in turn make it harder for Jews to engage constructively in dialogue with Catholics. It prayed for the conversion of Jews, referring to their blindness and calling upon God to lift the veil from their hearts. Rabbi Joel H. Meyers says that the Jewish community is calling for a revision of the prayer and that the relationship with the Catholic church has been good for quite sometime now and they would like it to stay that way.
I think that this is completely disrespectful for the Catholic church to do this to the Jews, they have a right to believe what they want to and not have someone throw it in their face that they are wrong to believe what they believe. They should respect the Jews and their beliefs as the Jews should respect them. Did we not all learn do on to others as you want them to do to you?
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