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religions and their offsprings: the demand for right belief and the demand for right behavior.  I will discuss elements in future posts In my local coffee shop today, a very religious elderly Protestant acquaintance of mine asked me, “Did you hear that the Pope is changing the Lord’s prayer”? He did not know much about the issue but added, with a tone of distain, that the Pope was trying to change the phrase “deliver us from evil” by changing the notion of evil. Well, after he left the shop, I decided to look up the issue and see what the real story was.  And indeed, my friend’s biases made him I was raised Protestant, and in my youth, the tension between Catholics and Protestants was high. I grew up with lots of bad talk about Catholics, and back then, it was not about se*ual abuse, but then it was tribal.  And in my youth, Catholicism focused mostly on theology and how Catholics have a dictator Pope who they almost treat like a god. My elderly acquaintance was raised in those years too, and he is a fervent Evangelical Episcopal and thus perhaps his anti-Pope tone. His version of the story supported his distain. But he was wrong in several ways. Before I go further, you should know that the prayer is one that Jesus apparently taught is disciples.  If you don’t know the prayer, let me show you the two different Bible versions of this short prayer as translated in the NIV (New International Version) and found in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke. Chapters and verses are listed: 9 ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into te*ptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ 2 ‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into te*ptation.’