Dear Dawn,

It is a more important question to ask where YOU are! Are you faithful to the message of Jesus? Or are YOU choosing betrayal? Or are you back and forth in your commitment?

But you wonder about Judas because you wonder about the choices we all make, really. Are such choices final? In the tradition of the Judgment and of divine mercy, we have an opportunity at the moment of death to choose Christ--or not.  Judas had an opportunity to repent. He drew upon the whole of his life--not just the fateful decision of betraying Jesus--to make that choice. And we know little about that life--was he generous, loving, kind, fair, honest? His final choice would probably be a kind of "majority rule." He would decide on the same basis in which he'd been figuring out things all his life.

So, nobody knows for certain where Judas is (I'm concluding you mean heaven, hell or purgatory). Again, the more important question is this: Where are You heading? What can Judas teach you about how (or how not) to get there?