Mgr Brandmuller told fellow scholars it was time for a “re-reading” of the Judas story. He is supported by Vittorio Messori, a prominent Catholic writer close to both Pope Benedict XVI and the late John Paul II.
Signor Messori said that the rehabilitation of Judas would “resolve the problem of an apparent lack of mercy by Jesus toward one of his closest collaborators.”
He told La Stampa that there was a Christian tradition that held that Judas was forgiven by Jesus and ordered to purify himself with “spiritual exercises” in the desert.
Here we go again. Man's tradition, again, trumps the Holy Word of G-d. Worse yet, it is Gnostic ( secret spiritual exercises to gain access to Heaven ). b'shem Y'shua
More like the London Times' fanciful ideas.
One priest does not the Holy See make.
Don't go calling my church Gnostic...the holes in your sect of Christianity are large enough to drive a truck through.
We're living in very strange times...