Judas in the news

If this article is right, Walter Bradmuller from the Vatican has
called for a "re-reading" of Judas.

This current of liberal I'm OK, your OK from the 60's may back with a
vengeance. Now Judas is OK because he "had not been intentionally evil". Even
better.. he was just "fulfilling his part in God's plan".

No one knows Judas the man. How do we know he had no intention of
evil? And then there's the bothersome sin of despair in Judas' suicide. This
really sounds like an expression of our culture's current necessity that
everyone is going to heaven.

Polls say that's what we believe, so here's a nice story to make it
so.

The best way to abdicate responsibility? Give it to God... we are all just
fulfilling His plan. Nice spin. Since we know God's plan is in operation, let's
just ride along. Storefront churches are full of these glad tidings.

Maybe we are just unknowingly sliding toward Luther and his pecca fortiter
-- sin lustily.

Though we seldom hear warnings against sin from the pulpit, the Vatican
will not abdicate it's responsibility in the end.

Still, if Judas is a saint, there is great hope for all of us. Forget 2,000
years of warnings. See you up there, no doubt.