************ When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility." Matthew 27: 3-5 -o0o- He was seeing a particular vision; a sinister one. It was inside a dream. In the scene, he was seeing a top view of St Peter's Square, from beside a gargoyle overlooking the vast plaza, where he could see a priest that was crucified on top of the Vatican obelisk. He had no idea how the cross was sustained in that location, but it did. It was the image of a grotesque nightmare to be able to see such cruelty done within the confines of the Vatican Hill, and in front of the Basilica erected to hold the very tomb of the apostle who was given the keys to heaven, known as the primacy of the Chair of St Peter. Just as...