Anyone who would willingly have that blasphemous drek in close proximity to them is simply not right in either the head or the soul.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
That’s sick. How do we know it’s true though..?
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/rome-rehabilitates-judas-on-maundy-thursday
Oh thanks Don.
Just wow.
Beyond being a blasphemous image of Our Lord, reading that it is redefining Judas is beyond appalling. They’re changing the narrative of the Crucifix depicting Judas as a victim worthy of redemption. Since when was Judas the misunderstood disciple? Since when? His role as a traitor was just that. He betrayed Our Lord willingly and despaired of the power of Our Lords forgiveness by choice. He was not some victim of circumstance. He is not worthy to be talked about in the same vein as Our Lords faithful (yet flawed) disciples- many of whom were martyred spreading the Good News.
Sometimes one feels that it’s better just not to know what this current Vatican administration is doing. So very demoralising as a Christian.
Yup, evil exists within our church and God allows it for the better good He can bring out of it.
Perseverance (through grace) is the main weapon to fight despair. Despair is the enemy of faith.
Never forget that our Lord kept chastising his good Apostles for lacking sufficient faith.
It’s not only a blasphemous theme, but bad art. At least the Renaissance popes had taste.
Correct Bob. It looks like the product of a high school art class by one of the less talented students.
In the high school I attended, maybe 5% of the student body could have executed a pencil drawing with that level of representational fidelity, and none with watercolors or oil paints. My aunt, trained at an art school in the 1940s, might have managed it. The art students at my old employer, never. My niece is an art school graduate. She couldn’t execute that painting nor could more than a few in her graduating class, and painting was her specific concentration. (Her brother could do it, though that’s not his specific style). The problem isn’t the form, it’s the content.
Off topic, Dr. K, but in case you were not aware, your name got dropped by Doug Keck and Fr. Robert Spitzer on EWTN last week, during the “Father Spitzer’s Universe” program. The discussion had ventured into astrophysics, which it tends to do when Fr. Spitzer is around. 😁
IMHO, God allowed Judas to be the path of betrayal for the same reason he allows Bergoglio to sit in the Vatican now. We shouldn’t put our trust in princes. If someone acts Catholic, great. If not, then act appropriately.
Some of you have been afflicted with reading my asinine comments, which sometimes included ‘SJ = Society of Judas.’
I’m pretty sure that PF and approximately 98% of the SJ has not read/prayed, in spirit and truth, the Gospels. If he ever did likely it was 50 years ago.
I know it’s secondary to Art’s main point, which is the most important, but…
Good painting is hard work akin to an apprenticeship. A friend of mine has pointed out that old-school art training involves repetitive training in drawing, over and over again, on a daily basis. Precious few art programs do this, which is why we get dreck across the board.
Even when it is well-intentioned and not subversive garbage, it’s still not good.
Read the link. Whether it’s a good or bad painting is beside the point. The actual point of concern is the re-telling of Judas role in the crucifixion of Our Lord. And the narrative is supported by the successor of St Peter. That’s the point.
I am surprised that few people think of Christ’s unfathomable sadness at Judas’ deadly sins, which is what I see in the ugly painting.
From “The Ratzinger Report” (1985):
“This realization of the objective difficulties does not stop him, however, from making a passionate defense not only of music but of Christian art in general and of its function of revealing truth: ‘The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb. Better witness is borne to the Lord by the splendor of holiness and art which have arisen in the community of believers than by clever excuses which apologetics has come up with to justify the dark sides which, sadly, are so frequent in the Church’s human history. If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection? No. Christians must not be too easily satisfied. They must make their Church into a place where beauty—and hence truth—is at home. Without this the world will become the first circle of hell.’ ”
From 2006:
“Pope Benedict XVI is trying to combat efforts to rehabilitate Christianity’s most hated villain after the presentation this month of a newly discovered ‘gospel according to Judas’.
In his first Easter sermon at St Peter’s Basilica, the pope said the 13th apostle was a greedy liar: ‘He evaluated Jesus in terms of power and success. For him, only power and success were real. Love didn’t count.’
‘The money was more important than communion with Jesus, more important than God and his love,’ he told a congregation in the Basilica of St John Lateran.
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The pope said the renegade apostle’s lies had cast him into a hopeless, downward spiral. ‘He became hardened, incapable of conversion, of the trusting return of the prodigal son, and threw away his ruined life.’
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pope-condemns-judas-as-a-greedy-liar-in-easter-sermon-1.1038704
Off topic, Dr. K, but in case you were not aware, your name got dropped by Doug Keck and Fr. Robert Spitzer on EWTN last week Thanks, Frank. I wasn’t aware…I’m Fr. Spitzer’s tame physicist, on his “Academic Fellows Board” for the Magis Center Faith and Reason, and writing occasional blog posts for his web site, and helped him with some stuff he was writing about thermo.
QUOTERMEISTER.
A sin against the Holy Spirit. [?]
Having been given so much time, graces, miracles, proofs and love from the Master. Then the sell off.
The poor choice. The greed had championed the temple where the Lord wished to rest. Spiritual blindness, arrogance and appreciation for false power and false success.
Thank you for Pope Benedict XVI’s quotes.
As always..Our Trust is in Jesus.
Prayers for PF.
Is that Judas or Christ dead in the picture? I fear the owner may have a different interpretation.