Requiem for our friend Judas in Linz Austria. "Shrine" to "St" Judas

Catholic Church Conservation ^ | 22 March 2005 | Gillibrand

[Gillibrand]

Shrine to Judas in the town of Linz, Austria From the town that brought to the world Adolf Hitler now comes in the Ursuline Church an art installation for Lent, "Requiem for a friend Judas Iskarioth" ( Iscariot ).

Many pictures and more text are given at the website.

The text accompanying the exhibition says that Judas should be made a saint and that he did not commit suicide but was done away with by the other apostles. It claims that the installation shows Judas with a halo. He is the intercessor for all suicides, for all those excluded, excommunicated, mocked, for all witches and apostates! (and if for this lot, why not also for the relatives of euthanasia victims, who support the murder)

And, unbelievably, they light candles for Judas.

In contrast, the Gospel teaches: "Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled." --Jesus Christ (John 17:12)

" Jesus replied to them, Did I not choose the twelve of you, and behold one of you is a devil" (John 6:70)

The artist of this abomination one Walter Gschwandtner.

The installation is located in the crypt where the Usuline Sisters are buried. In fact, it is the place where their bodies were laid before burial. The exhibition opened in Lent with a Mass (see pictures below). The exhibition is open every Sunday before Mass during Lent, and then will have a special showing on Good Friday, prior to a "Spiritual Concert". This Church no longer has the traditional ceremonies of Good Friday, but are celebrating Judas.

And nothing new under the sun. The Gnostic sect of the Cananites venerated Judas.

I hope any Catholic (or for that matter any Christian) reading this would wish to protest. The details of the Bishop of the Diocese, with the e-mail at the bottom of the page. Write in any language you choose, he certainly understands English. Please do not be abusive but firm in demanding clarification as to why such an outrage can take place.

[Gillibrand]

Body of thread is slightly modified from the website. How much more decadent can the post-Vatican II Church get before it implodes. Forty years since the Council, the years that the locusts have eaten.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is a stupid thing for a church to do.

[Gillibrand]

Worse than stupid, evil. The text accompanying the exhibition also says:

"Jesus and his dark friend his shadow
Jesus and Judas - a melting of good and evil.
Light and Darkness- a splitting of the unity of God"

which implies that Judas someone shares in the divinity of Jesus.