Amazing words on Judas by Pope Benedict!

Update: The Associated Press has picked up the story.
(I'd read it now but more important things call, like Holy Thursday Mass...)

Original Post:

WoW!

Pope, in Holy Thursday homily, says Judas was a greedy liar

ROME (CNS) -- Judas was a greedy liar who put his desire for money ahead of his relationship with Jesus and his love for God, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Exactly a week after the National Geographic Society put the sympathetic Gospel of Judas on display, Pope Benedict reasserted the traditional Christian view that Judas betrayed his friend and Lord after the Last Supper.

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But during his April 13 homily at the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper, Pope Benedict said Judas is the clearest example Christians have of someone who refuses God's saving love.

For Judas, the pope said, "only power and success are real; love does not count."

"And he is greedy: money is more important than communion with Jesus, more important than God and his love. He also becomes a liar, a double-crosser who breaks with the truth," Pope Benedict said.

Purposefully ignoring the truth, he said, Judas "hardens, becoming incapable of conversion ... and throws away his destroyed life."

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I'm going to try to scrounge up the full text ... if anyone finds it please drop me a link.