Pope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord’s Prayer to be changed.<\/p>\n
The current wording that says “lead us not into temptation” is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin, he says.<\/p>\n
His suggestion is to use “do not let us fall into temptation” instead, he told Italian TV on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Lord’s Prayer is the best-known prayer in Christianity.<\/p>\n
The pontiff said France’s Roman Catholic Church was now using the new wording “do not let us fall into temptation” as an alternative, and something similar should be used worldwide.<\/p>\n
“Do not let me fall into temptation because it is I who fall, it is not God who throws me into temptation and then sees how I fell,” he told TV2000, an Italian Catholic TV channel.<\/p>\n
“A father does not do that, a father helps you to get up immediately.”<\/p>\n
It is a translation from the Latin Vulgate, a 4th-Century Latin translation of the Bible, which itself was translated from ancient Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has not shied away from controversy and has tackled some issues head-on, Vatican observers say.<\/p>\n
He has previously said\u00a0the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them.<\/p>\n
He has also compared European migrant detention centres with concentration camps.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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