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Roman Catholic ritual is growing more and more diplomatic. The late Pope Pius XII changed the translation of Latin liturgy for Good Friday from "Let us pray for the perfidious Jews [Oremus pro perfidis Judaeis]" to "Let us pray for the unbelieving Jews" (the sense perfidis once had). The present Pope dropped the qualifying word entirely. Last week the Vatican announced that at Pope John's direction the term perfidy will also be eliminated from the ritual used in baptizing adults from Judaism and other non-Catholic faiths...
...WORD OREMUS (LET Us PRAY) : "A useful sort of alarm clock ... to wake us up at various points . . . when our attention was in danger of going to sleep...
...they left the church, the Sistine choir sang: "Oremus Pro Pontifico Nostro...
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