Pope Francis calls for a change to ‘Our Father’ prayer
By Mike Simpson
Pope Francis is calling for a new translation of one of the lines from the world’s most famous prayer, the Our Father.
The Pope says the line “lead us not into temptation” is “not a good translation.”
"It speaks of a God who induces temptation,” he told Italian broadcasters Dec. 6 on the TV2000 channel.
“I am the one who falls; it’s not him pushing me into temptation to then see how I have fallen,” he said, according a report in The Guardian. “A father doesn’t do that, a father helps you to get up immediately. It’s Satan who leads us into temptation, that’s his department.”
The Pope noted that the phrase has already been changed in France to “do not let us fall into temptation.”
He said the alternative words should be applied to the English translation around the world.
The Our Father has a long translation lineage. Originally in Aramaic, the language of Jesus’ time, it was translated to ancient Greek and Latin before modern translations.
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