LATIN American Bishops speak out on Gospel of Judas

Why don't our guys do this?

Mexico City, Apr. 10, 2006 (CNA) - Four leading Latin American archbishops, including three cardinals, have expressed regret over National Geographic’s decision to publish a Palm Sunday report on the so-called “Gospel of Judas,” presenting it as new discovery that sheds light on the life of Jesus.

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“The enemies of the Church are drudging up old arguments, apocryphal writings in order to confuse the people, and if people do not study their faith, they will get confused,” said Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez of Guadalajara, Mexico.

And in a very apt observation:

“When did Judas have time to write a gospel if he hung himself? Not only that, but the first Christians noted that when he gave the silver coins back they did not want to return them to the temple treasury and they used them to buy a field which to this day is known as the Field of Blood, because it was the fruit of the shedding of the blood of Christ and the suicide of Judas. In other words, the document is contradictory and late,” said Cardinal Errazuriz.

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