(ENI) – A Roman Catholic writer close to both the current and the previous popes argues that the rehabilitation of Judas Iscariot would "resolve the problem of an apparent lack of mercy by Jesus towards one of his closest collaborators."
Vittorio Messori said that according to one Christian tradition, Judas was forgiven by Jesus and ordered to purify himself with "spiritual exercises" in the desert.
According to an article in The Times, "The Judas myth helped to shape 2,000 years of anti-Semitism. It remains illegal to name a child Judas in Germany."
