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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.

159 posted on 01/12/2006 9:01:37 PM MST by AlaninSA

According to the London Times, a campaign led by Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, head of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Science, is aimed at persuading believers to look kindly at a man reviled for 2,000 years.
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 ( read Roman Catholic) tradition that held that Judas was forgiven by
Jesus and ordered to purify himself with “spiritual exercises” in the desert.

Correct me if I'm wrong , but I read that to mean
Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, Signor Vittorio Messori,
Pope Benedict XVI and the late John Paul II currently believe
and have believed that if you were go to the desert
and follow gnostic spiritual exercises you could
purify yourself and acquire salvation on the basis
of said gnostic spiritual exercises.

How do you read it?

b'shem Y'shua