Bishop Barron’s Attempt To Rehabilitate Judas Iscariot

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Bishop Barron’s Attempt To Rehabilitate Judas Iscariot
On March 29, 2026, Bishop Robert Barron used Palm Sunday to soften the Church’s warnings about Judas, hell, and damnation. Scripture, the Roman Catechism, and the Catholic tradition say otherwise.
There is something grotesque about using Palm Sunday to rehabilitate Judas.
That is what Bishop Robert Barron effectively did in his March 29 Fox News column. He acknowledged that the overwhelming theological tradition regarded Judas as damned, then shifted the reader’s attention to the Vézelay image beloved by Francis, floated the hope that Judas might have been saved, invoked postconciliar caution about naming anyone in hell, and folded the whole thing into his familiar theology of overwhelming mercy. Instead of an exhortation to fear betrayal, despair, avarice, sacrilege, and final impenitence, it was another attempt to blunt the edge of Christ’s warnings.
Barron’s defenders will say that he did not preach formal universalism. They are right in the narrowest, most lawyerly sense. Word on …

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DrMaria5 days ago

What do you expect from a Bishop who has said to a Ben Shapiro, a modern day Jew asking about his prospects for salvation, that Jesus Christ is merely "the favored way" to salvation - not the only Way - and thus he, Ben Shapiro, should not worry about converting to Christ - it's not required! And we wonder why the SSPX will not bow down to the errors of Vatican II?

GerardN5 days ago

Pope Francis was big on rehabilitating Judas. So is a parish priest in my local area. What gives?? They want to think everyone is saved so they have to encounter the problem of Judas.