Is Judas in Hell?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Is Judas in Hell? The overwhelming consensus over time is that he must be. But has the Church proclaimed that he definitely is? Surprisingly... no. Why?

Jesus teaches us that, while we can evaluate “a tree by its fruits,” it is left to God alone to make a final judgement upon someone’s heart and determine their destination. Everyone has the grace and the opportunity to say “yes” to God. The sobering flipside to this reality is that hell is real—and it’s not something that only really, really bad people choose. “Wide is the road that leads to destruction.”

Today, Fr. Mike invites us to ponder our final destination, and whether or not we are truly doing God’s will.

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0:00.0	The theme song of hell basically, as I said,
0:02.1	the motto CS Lewis said is,
0:04.6	my will be done.
0:05.6	The theme song would be
0:08.0	the one popularized by Frank Sinatra,
0:10.7	that I did it my way.
0:11.6	Oh gosh, Lord, help us all.
0:15.5	I was gonna bring the name of the father
0:16.9	to someone on the spirit.
0:17.5	I mean it, because this is serious.
0:18.8	Here we go. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz
0:20.1	and this is a essential presence.
0:21.3	So I got an email recently from someone who said
0:23.3	that they thought they heard me give a talk
0:25.2	back in my hometown a bunch of years ago
0:27.2	or they thought it must have been me
0:28.9	but something along the lines that Judas is in heaven
0:32.4	and that Judas was doing God's will.
0:34.6	He was a collaborator with Jesus
0:36.5	in offering, in Jesus' offering of himself on the cross.
0:40.9	Okay, wow, no.
0:42.3	I would never say that.
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