Radical Jesuit: New French Our Father Distorts Meaning
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Talking to Deutschlandfunk (December 8) he argued that God led Christ into the desert "to be tempted" and that God "tempted" Abraham to offer his own son.
Mertes cannot accept the new French version of the Our Father which he calls a distortion. For him it is inconceivable that the centuries-old Our Father would be changed in an authoritarian way. Nevertheless, in the same interview, Mertes questions the existence of Satan.
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