You, me and Abe Foxman can exhale now that Pope Benedict XVI has rethought his edict to reinstate the traditional Tridentine Mass into Catholic liturgy.

The ancient all-Latin, all-the-time rite raised major hackles last year with its plea that the poor Jews who live in “blindess” and “darkness” have the “veil” shrouding them from salvation be lifted, causing Our Man in the ADL to cry foul.

According to Catholic leaders it wasn’t so much anti-Semitic, but well-meaning. Yeah. Kinda like a born-again Christian friend who called me once at 2 o’clock in the morning in tears because she was concerned for my soul and didn’t want me to spend eternity with Satan: Well-intentioned, but stupid. I told her first off, Satan doesn’t want me either and second, she should ask herself what would Jesus do if someone woke him up at 2am on a school night.

The Pope has “reformulated” the prayer after some discussion about the actual meaning of the concept of conversion, and according to sources, the new text no longer calls for Jews to become Christians but rather “prays for the physical and spiritual well being of the Jews.”

Anyone speak enough Latin to sneak into a Good Friday Mass and see if “in hell” was tacked on to the end of the sentence?