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Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to change the words of The Lord’s Prayer.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church wants to change the way people pray.

Pope Francis wants to alter the Lord's Prayer, saying it does not accurately reflect the translation from ancient texts.

The Pontiff wants to make it clear it is only Satan, not God, who can lead us into temptation.

The current wording of the prayer that begins “Our Father” asks God to “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” The pope said in a television interview Wednesday that phrasing “is not a good translation" of ancient texts and appears to suggest that God induces temptation.

“A father does not push me into temptation, to see how I fell,” he said. “A father doesn’t do that. He helps you get up right away. What induces into temptation is Satan.”

The prayer should ask, instead, for God’s help in avoiding temptation, he said. A better wording, he said, would be: "Do not let us fall into temptation.”

- with files from CTV News