Francis Selects LGBTQ Supporter ‘Fr.’ Timothy Radcliffe to Become a ‘Cardinal’

Consistory scheduled for Dec. 8

Francis Selects LGBTQ Supporter ‘Fr.’ Timothy Radcliffe to Become a ‘Cardinal’ (among others)

On Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, ‘Pope’ Francis revealed he will hold a consistory on Dec. 8 to create 21 new ‘cardinals’, 20 of whom will be eligible to vote in conclave to elect his successor.

“A number of the men tapped for the red hat have vocally supported Pope Francis’ controversial 2023 document Fiducia Supplicans – in which the blessing of homosexual and ‘irregular unions’ is sanctioned – as well as holding liberal positions on transgenderism”, Life Site reported on Oct. 9. Anyone who is surprised at this hasn’t been paying attention.

The following links are to news reports and commentaries on the latest batch of ‘cardinals’:

Rome Reports released a brief video clip on this:

One cardinal-elect in particular deserves a special dishonorable mention: The Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. Since last year, the Dominican has been receiving a certain amount of attention in his role as the spiritual leader and retreat master of the ongoing Synod on Synodality.

The announcement of his pick as a ‘cardinal’ comes roughly two-and-a-half weeks after the official Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published an article by Radcliffe in which the aging Dominican claimed that homosexual desire is created by God:

The false pope knows exactly whom he appoints to various roles and why.

The Modernist ‘Father’ Radcliffe has long been known as an outspoken supporter of homosexuality. In an article published on Jan. 23, 2023, the English Modernist rag The Tablet put it this way: “In 2015, [Radcliffe] was appointed as a consulter to the then Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and is known for his pastorally sensitive approach to gay and lesbian Catholics, including support for same-sex civil unions.”

Let’s look at some examples (we are indebted to information provided by Life Site for some of these finds).

We begin with an article from 2006, which reported on the English Dominican giving a lecture in Los Angeles:

On the subject of the church and homosexuality, Radcliffe called for the church to “stand with” gay people.

“We must accompany them as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open,” he said. “This means watching ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord.”

Even when we feel that gay people are moving in the wrong direction, he said, we must “walk with them.”

(John L. Allen, Jr., “The Word from Rome”, National Catholic Reporter, Apr. 7, 2006)

Did you get that? According to ‘Fr.’ Radcliffe, you’re supposed to expose yourself to sexual filth — specifically the unnatural kind — out of compassion for, or solidarity with, sodomites. Because “walking together” and all that. Can we imagine the Dominican friar suggesting a similar course of action with regard to racists, for example? Fat chance!

But there’s more from the above-linked report: “Radcliffe called for compassion for various constituencies, including sexually abusing priests, whom he described as ‘the lepers of the modern church, the unclean whom we fear to touch’.” Maybe we’ll just leave that uncommented.

In 2015, the Rev. Radcliffe said that homosexuals should not be banned from the priesthood; instead, “homophobes” should be. That is reminiscent of the Mexican Novus Ordo bishop José Raúl Vera López, also a Dominican. In 2013, Vera Lopez claimed that people who oppose homosexuality aren’t right in the head. Talk about insanity!

It will come as no surprise that Radcliffe values “creativity” over Tradition; and in 2012 he wrote that “committed love of people of the same sex … should be cherished and supported, which is why church leaders are slowly coming to support same-sex civil unions. The God of love can be present in every true love” (The Tablet, Mar. 10, 2012, p. 4). No doubt Radcliffe is an expert in immoral theology.

Let’s fast-forward to 2019. In his book Alive in God, Radcliffe relates:

When I visited the noviciate [sic] of the English Dominicans in 1965, wondering whether this might be my life, I was delighted when one of the friars talked of how the sacraments bless the dramas of our physical life: birth and death, eating and drinking, sex and health. There is nothing ethereal about the sacramental life. It is down to earth, like our God.

(Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., Alive in God: A Christian Imagination [London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019], pp. 281-282)

A man who can assert something so stupid as there being “nothing ethereal” about the sacraments obviously has not the faintest idea about the supernatural life. His faulty observation reflects what is perhaps the main problem with the Novus Ordo religion: the loss of the supernatural.

Naturalism is everywhere in the Vatican II Sect, and its highest act of worship, the Novus Ordo Missae (‘New Mass’ of Paul VI), expresses that very well because it is mundane, pedestrian, commonplace, insipid. It is but a meal at a table, under felt banners, presided over by a liturgical social worker who prays to God in the same language with which he orders pizza. Wearing horrible vestments and giving trite homilies, his performance is accompanied by insufferable music. No wonder Radcliffe sees in this but the sacramental blessing of earthly “eating and drinking.”

Indeed, there is nothing heavenly or supernatural about the “Eucharistic celebration” of the Vatican II religion — quite in contrast to the august Sacrifice of the Altar, the Holy Catholic Mass:

Perhaps we should mention that Radcliffe’s book Alive in God prominently features on its cover Henri Matisse’s 1910 painting Dance, which consists of five nude people, both male and female, dancing in a circle while holding hands. Incredibly edifying, isn’t it?

That Radcliffe believes in the theory of (macro) evolution should go without saying, of course. In the same book, right after informing us of the supposed “down-to-earth-ness” of the sacraments, he writes:

Through the millennia of evolution [the human body] became the embodiment of an openness to offer and receive love and so is a fit dwelling for Absolute Love. It is as if all those millennia of human evolution, as we became upright, able to look at each other eye to eye, our faces softening to become expressive of joy and sorrow, able to smile and laugh, our hands able to touch each other with sensitivity, all lead not just to us, homo sapiens, but to a fit home for the God who is love to be with us.

(Radcliffe, Alive in God, pp. 282-283)

So the English Dominican believes that what determines one’s fitness for welcoming the Eternal God is determined by the natural state of the body rather than the supernatural state of the soul. According to him, what makes God able to dwell in one is the ability to smile, to look someone in the eye, to touch another; rather than having an intellect to know God, illuminated by divine Faith, and a will to love Him, inflamed by divine charity, along with hope, which connects both.

As Pope St. Pius X told us, for the Modernist theologian “God is immanent in man” (Encyclical Pascendi, n. 19), and that is apostasy. The distinction between nature and grace is practically obliterated in such a theology. There is no room for original sin, and consequently no need for a Redeemer. God dwells in all people in virtue of their humanity: “The feared stranger bears ‘the human form divine’, an image of God, whatever their faith or lack of it”, Radcliffe writes further (p. 283). The result of this false theology has been extremely visible in the ‘pontificate’ of Jorge Bergoglio, aka ‘Pope Francis’.

Unfortunately, we have saved the worst for last. Some things are so awful and disgusting that one does not really know how to expose them in a modest way. Therefore, please receive our apologies in advance — we have no choice but to quote the actual words of this shameful Dominican. Prepare yourself for some sickening blasphemous ideas!

The ideas are presented in an Anglican publication known informally as the “Pilling Report” (full text here). In 2013 Radcliffe had participated in a ecumenical working group on human sexuality, and the report summarizes what was discussed. In article n. 258, the publication relates that “Fr Radcliffe proposed a Eucharistic sexual ethic that started with Jesus’s gift of his body at the Last Supper”. For Radcliffe, “sexual intercourse [is] ‘mutual generosity’ – the complete gift of the body to the other person” (n. 259).

But then the disgraceful theologian gets into homosexuality. The following words are given in quotation marks, meaning they were uttered verbatim by ‘Fr.’ Radcliffe:

‘How does all this bear on the question of gay sexuality? We cannot begin with the question of whether it is permitted or forbidden! We must ask what it means, and how far it is Eucharistic. Certainly it can be generous, vulnerable, tender, mutual and non-violent. So in many ways I think it can be expressive of Christ’s self-gift.’

(Timothy Radcliffe, quoted in Report of the House of Bishops: Working Group on Human Sexuality [London: Church House Publishing, 2013], p. 77, n. 266.)

As you reel from this shocking blasphemy, remember that in 2015 Francis appointed this individual to serve as a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has invited him to be retreat master to prepare numerous ‘Catholic bishops’ for two 3-week events in the Vatican (the Synod on Synodality) that are meant to shape the entire Novus Ordo Church going forward, and has now announced he will make him a ‘cardinal’ on December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception! Bergoglio is practically spitting into the sacred countenances of Our Lord and Our Lady!

The foul sin of sodomy, which is one of only four that cry to Heaven for vengeance, is gradually becoming more and more accepted in the Vatican II Church under ‘Pope’ Francis. Note well, we are talking about acceptance, not merely about toleration. Here are some examples with more information:

Novus Ordo priests who practice sodomy are bad enough; but the likes of ‘Fr.’ Radcliffe are so much worse because not only do they approve of the vice, they blasphemously ‘theologize’ it and make a theology and a spirituality out of it!

Under a real Pope, a man like Timothy Radcliffe would be a candidate for excommunication, not for promotion to the cardinalate.

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