By Francis Otucu

Pope Francis has finally approved for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord’s Prayer to be changed.

This after his 2017 suggestion that the current wording that says “lead us not into temptation” is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin.

The pontiff said Tuesday that his suggestion is to use “do not let us fall into temptation” instead.

He argued in an Italian Catholic TV interview that the new version is better because the first translation implies that God leads people into temptation.

He noted that France’s Roman Catholic Church was now using the new wording “do not let us fall into temptation” as an alternative, and something similar should be used worldwide.

The Lord’s Prayer is the best-known prayer in Christianity.

“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,” he told TV2000, an Italian Catholic TV channel.

“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.