Vatican City, Dec 8, 2017 / 10:40 am
In a video series for Italian television network TV2000, Pope Francis said that "lead us not into temptation" is a poorly translated line of the Our Father.
"This is not a good translation," the Pope said in the video, published Dec. 6. "I am the one who falls, it's not (God) who pushes me toward temptation to see how I fall. A father doesn't do this, a father helps us to get up right away."
He noted that this line was recently re-translated in the French version of the prayer to read "do not let me fall into temptation."
The Latin version of the prayer, the authoritative version in the Catholic Church, reads "ne nos inducas in tentationem."