Every Christmas, Judas Iscariot is let out of Hell. Most people never leave, not even once, and they did not betray Our Lord and Savior to his agonizing if necessary death, so you might not expect him to get special treatment. In fact, Judas leaves Hell on a regular basis. As this infamous man told St. Brendan the Navigator, that night long long ago when the saint and his companions came across him on a frozen sea, he is released from Hell on Sundays, for the twelve days of Christmas, and a couple additional feast days beside.
The demons do not wonder over his privileges. They assume that this freedom is merely one more exquisite punishment. They are half right, which is the same thing as being all wrong. Demons don’t know anything.
For hundreds of years, Judas visits that rock in the middle of the sea and looks up at the stars whenever it’s time to go. That he might go other places does not occur to Judas. After Hell, as he’d assured St. Brendan, the rock in the middle of the ocean is…
