Judas Priest

At this supreme point in the Christian calendar, it is only natural that the Pope should be trying to combat efforts to rehabilitate modern Catholicism's most hated villain after Martin Luther, Galileo Galilei and Pope John XXIII. "The money was more important than communion with Jesus, more important than God and his love," said the successor of the frugal Medici and the incorruptible Borgia. He was referring to Judas Iscariot, whose role in the redemption of certain obedient sections of humanity has recently come under scrutiny. However, the infallible one is having none of it. "He evaluated Jesus in terms of power and success," said Pope Benedict, whose entire priesthood has been spent labouring in sackcloth and ashes for the betterment of humanity and the glory of the Inquisition. "For him, only power and success were real. Love didn't count." One would think that Pope Benedict, among all God's humble, would know that love can make people do strange things at times - calling one's fellow Christians "deficient" and "intrinsically disordered" when it seems expedient to do so, for example.