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Some ask if prayer problems are limited to Catholics
By Matthew Streib

(UNDATED) Next week (March 21), some Catholics using the old Latin Mass will utter a controversial Good Friday prayer that has recently strained Catholic-Jewish relations. The prayer calls for the conversion of the Jews, and many Jews thought it had gone away 40 years ago. But all the controversy prompts a larger question: Do Jewish prayers ask the same thing? Every day, Orthodox Jews across the world give thanks that God did not make the Jews like others, who “bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god which helps not.” That prompted Chicago's Cardinal Francis George to wonder aloud whether Jews have some liturgical house-cleaning of their own to do. Some Jews say the uproar over the prayers is much ado about nothing, while others say the comparison is inaccurate, and even a bit insulting.