.- During
his television program, “Keys to a Better World,” Archbishop Hector
Aguer of La Plata, Argentina, said this week that the controversial
“gospel of Judas” is part of an “ideological attack” against the
Catholic faith and the Church.
“It seems
anti-Catholicism sells well, which shows there is also a commercial
venture at work” the archbishop said. “This is not because of the
dynamism of the market, nor is it by coincidence,” he warned. “It
is obvious that the commercial venture—the business—and the ideological
venture are very much connected, and we need to remember that and be
aware of all this.”
Archbishop Aguer
noted that the contents of the “gospel of Judas” “have been known for
at least 1800 years” and the text has always been considered part of
the apocryphal writings of “a Gnostic sect where Christian truths,
philosophical doctrines and, most especially, oriental mysteries were
all mixed together, and the Church condemned it rapidly.”
The Gnostic
ideology consisted of “an attack on the God of the Bible, with a strong
anti-Jewish tendency. Against all of this they exalted the supreme god
of the Gnostics and Judas was a key figure in the struggle against that
Biblical God who they considered a Semitic God,” the archbishop
explained.
“Now the ‘gospel
of Judas’ is presented as if it had just been discovered, when in
reality St. Iraneus of Lyon, in his work against the heresies in the
year 180, had already unmasked this false gospel,” he said in
conclusion.
‘Gospel of Judas’: an ideological attack against the Church, says Argentinean archbishop
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