Can He Really Do It? Pope Says He Wants The Lord's Prayer Changed

Piece by: Geoffrey Mbuthia
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Pope Francis has been one of the most forward-thinking of popes that we have had in the recent past. The man has changed a lot of catholic tradition.

But his next target may be one too many for the Catholic church. The reason is, that what he wants may mean re-writing lines in the text of the Bible, which for most Christians is sacrosanct. The Pope called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord's Prayer to be changed.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.

He told told TV2000, an Italian Catholic TV channel last Wednesday, that he would prefer:

"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. A father does not do that, a father helps you to get up immediately."

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. Since the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has not shied away from controversy and has tackled some issues head-on, Vatican observers say.

He has previously said the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them.

He has also compared European migrant detention centers with concentration camps. What do you think about this change he wants? Can it happen and most importantly will it happen and result in changing centuries of Bible text?