Articles tagged Judas Iscariot

Vatican’s official newspaper again questions Catholic teaching on Judas in Hell

‘Many saints and doctors of the Church, including St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, have taken it as a revealed truth that Judas was reprobated,’ wrote Cardinal Dulles in 2003

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Michael Haynes

• Apr 6, 2023

Judas’ betrayal warns us that we must never supplant our love of God with material goods

There is no sinner, however great may be his crimes; there is no heretic, or infidel, who has not his share in this precious Blood, whose infinite merit is such that it could redeem a million worlds, more guilty even than our own.

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Dom Prosper Guéranger

• Apr 5, 2023Apr 4, 2023

Why is there a painting of a nude Jesus ministering to Judas in Pope Francis’ study?

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's own newspaper, featured as its cover photo a scandalous painting of Our Lord in the Pope's own quarters.

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John-Henry Westen

• Apr 7, 2021Jul 30, 2021

Vatican Archbishop: those who say Judas is in hell are ‘heretics’ and priests may ‘accompany’ assisted suicides

Head of the Pontifical Academy for Life says priests my ‘hold the hands’ of patients as they go through with assisted suicide.

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Diane Montagna

• Dec 11, 2019Jun 18, 2021

When liturgy is not sacred, it becomes a Judas to the Real Presence

If we cannot get past the opening bars of guitar music without a groan of weariness, how well disposed can we possibly be to receive the Lord when He comes?

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Peter Kwasniewski

• Nov 12, 2019Jun 18, 2021