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[Emoke Greschik]

 Vatican Archbishop: those who say Judas is in hell are ‘heretics’ and
priests may ‘accompany’ assisted suicides

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-paglia-on-judas

ROME, December 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/catholic>) — *In a statement difficult to
reconcile with Scripture and Tradition, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia,
President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has claimed on behalf of the
Catholic Church that anyone who says Judas Iscariot is in hell is a
heretic.*

*In an even more disturbing **statement,* *the Italian archbishop* *also
asserted that a priest may legitimately remain at the beside of someone
undergoing assisted suicide in order to “hold their hand” and “accompany”
them.*

Archbishop Paglia’s comments
<https://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/it/2019/12/10/news/monsignor-paglia-nessuno-sia-abbandonato-celebro-sempre-i-funerali-di-chi-si-uccide-1.38193325>
came on December 10, at the presentation of a multi-faith International
Symposium on *Religion and Medical Ethics: Palliative Care and Elderly
Mental Health*, being held in Rome December 11-12. The symposium,
co-sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life and the World Innovation
Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation, is chiefly
focused on Christian and Muslim perspectives on end of life issues.

Following the formal presentation at the Holy See press office on Tuesday,
a journalist asked Archbishop Paglia for his views on a December 5 statement
issued
<https://agensir.it/europa/2019/12/06/the-swiss-bishops-on-assisted-suicide-the-church-cannot-be-present-during-the-termination-of-life/>
on
by the Bishops of Switzerland, requiring priests and Catholic pastoral
caregivers to leave the room before a lethal injection or other means of
suicide is administered.

*The 30-page document
<https://agensir.it/europa/2019/12/06/the-swiss-bishops-on-assisted-suicide-the-church-cannot-be-present-during-the-termination-of-life/>
of
the Swiss Bishops, titled “Pastoral behavior with regard to the practice of
assisted suicide*,” *comes in response to** increasing rates of assisted
suicide in Switzerland.* *It states that assisted suicide “is radically
against the Gospel message” and its practice “is a serious attack on the
preservation of the life of the human person that must be protected from
conception until natural death.”*

*Archbishop Paglia, who serves as chancellor of the new John Paul II
Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome (and presided over **the
former institute’s **demolition*), said he has not read the statement
issued by the Swiss bishops “in detail” but doesn’t believe that “anyone
should ever be abandoned.”

“We are against assisted suicide because we do not want to do the dirty
work of death and because we are all well aware that, for believers, life
goes on,” he continued. “To accompany and hold the hand of those who are
dying” is therefore the “great task“ of every believer, he said, along with
fighting the culture of assisted suicide, which represents “a great defeat
for society.”

“We cannot turn [assisted suicide] into a wise choice,” he said.

*Archbishop Paglia **then clarified: *“I always celebrate funerals for
those who commit suicide, because suicide is always a question of
unfulfilled love. We must also remember that, for the Catholic Church, * if
someone says that Judas is in hell, he is a heretic.”*

The assertion that saying Judas is in hell is tantamount to heresy is
surprising given the *clear teaching of Sacred Scripture, the Fathers and
Doctors of the Church and the liturgy. **As Cardinal Avery Dulles once
explained in an article
<https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/05/the-population-of-hell> titled
‘The Population of Hell’: *

*“The New Testament does not tell us in so many words that any particular
person is in hell. But several statements about Judas can hardly be
interpreted otherwise. Jesus says that he has kept all those whom the
Father has given him except the son of perdition (John 17:12). At another
point Jesus calls Judas a devil (John 6:70), and yet again says of him: “It
would be better for that man if he had never been born” (Matthew 26:24;
Mark 14:21). If Judas were among the saved, these statements could hardly
be true. Many saints and doctors of the Church, including St. Augustine and
St. Thomas Aquinas, have taken it as a revealed truth that Judas was
reprobated. Some of the Fathers place the name of Nero in the same select
company, but they do not give long lists of names, as Dante would do.*

Indeed, *Sacred Scripture, Pope St. Leo the Great, St. Augustine
<https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/03/damned-lies-on-destiny-of-judas-iscariot.html>,
St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, the Catechism of the Council of
Tren
<https://www.reddit.com/r/TraditionalCatholics/comments/a6gbjq/judas_is_in_hell/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body>t
and the Church’s liturgy
<https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/03/damned-lies-on-destiny-of-judas-iscariot.html>
are
all **of one accord
<https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/03/damned-lies-on-destiny-of-judas-iscariot.html>
regarding
the fate of Judas Iscariot. *

Asked if a priest can therefore “accompany a person who undergoes assisted
suicide,” Archbishop Paglia said the issue “goes beyond laws” and that he
“didn’t want to give a rule to contradict and so on.”

“I would like to remove ideology from these situations forever and for
everyone,” the archbishop said. “For me, those who take their own lives
manifest the failure of the whole of society, but not of God. And God never
abandons anyone.”

“Let's avoid getting stuck in ideological debates,” he said. “What is most
important is accompaniment. We think of laws when the most serious thing is
the abandonment of thousands and thousands of sick people, even when there
is a law. Perhaps because they don’t get votes.”

In comments to LifeSite, a priest close to the Vatican, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said: “Frankly, the first abandonment a Catholic
and a priest should worry about is the possible or likely abandonment of a
soul of such a person into hell, i.e. supernaturally provoked abandonment
and suicide of one’s soul for having voluntarily forsaken God’s law, His
plan and His love ... then we can talk about other matters....”

“True accompaniment in this case means seeking to be close, yes, but
seeking first and foremost to save a soul, and telling that person what is
at stake, and not abandoning him to his bad judgment. Indeed, *that *would
be true abandonment, although perhaps it would be less troublesome for a
priest and allow him to continue to be praised by the world,” he said. “But
ours is not the spirit or criterion of the world. We are creatures of the
kingdom of heaven who wish to reach our true home.”
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