Posted on 05/20/2015 9:26:41 PM PDT by FR_addict
ROME, May 19, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Pope Francis has appointed radically liberal, pro-homosexual Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe as a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
The Holy Father made the appointment on Saturday, according to Vatican Radio.
Father Radcliffe, an Englishman, author and speaker, was Master of the Dominican order from 1992 to 2001, and is an outspoken proponent of homosexuality.
"We must accompany [gay people] as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open,” he said in a 2006 religious education lecture in Los Angeles. “This means watching 'Brokeback Mountain,' reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord."
In 2005, as the Vatican deliberated the admission of men with homosexual tendencies to study for the priesthood in the wake of the Church sex abuse scandal, Father Radcliffe said that homosexuality should not bar men from the priesthood, and rather, those who oppose it should be banned. ...
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Pope Francis needs to decide what he believes. This priest wants us to watch Brokeback Mountain and if a Catholic believes that homosexual acts are not right, then the person should be banned from the Church. Is this who Pope Francis really wants representing the views of the Church for his Justice and Peace work.
I agree. It has become a cult.
‘Looks like I chose the wrong day to get back into Catholicism.’
I think Pope Francis may have lost his marbles.
what a shame. it appears the (RC) Church is set on a descent straight (if I may use that word) down to Perdition.
just like in WashDC, directed from the very top
Interesting choice of words. A little double-entendre, perhaps?
Just ick.
I'm not ready for the end times...
LOL! It's going to take more than some homopriest and his personal opinion (or that of a Pope) to get me to deny the Truth of the Eucharist and the Catholic faith. But then that's what a useless idiot of Satan does. Try to get Catholics do doubt their faith because man is imperfect.
Unless Catholics admit this has become a cult to them there's no choice at this point. This homo sickness has gone to far, but it's only just begun.
The only cult here is the cult of personality that is inherent in protestants who put their faith in men instead of Christ.
But thanks for the concern trolling anyway.
Mafia (Marxists???? Freemasons????? Illuminati???) took over the Vatican Bank decades ago before the murder of Pope John Paul I who was going to clean up the bank but was murdered 33 days into being elected “pope”. Why JPII was allowed to live for so long makes me go “hmmmmm”.....maybe he was just their “puppet” since all the destruction and molestation allowed on his “watch”. Fish rots from the head down.
Do I know.....No-—but my guess is the infiltration which Bella Dodd wrote about in the 30s and 40s by Marxist homosexuals was true-— and Fr. Oko’s report on Homoheresy documented during Pope Benedict XVI’s term (read it—it is eye-opening—google it) -—and all the OTHER numerous books I read-—like Goodbye, Good Men-—about homofascists raping and blackmailing and chasing out of the priesthood “good” “holy” men——makes me go “hmmmmmm”.... Infiltration is the MO of Marxists and Freemasons-—then it is Libido Dominandi (Blackmail for political and economic total CONTROL).
Truth will set you Free. CC only carries the sword of TRUTH—AT ALL TIMES. When the pope waffles or blurs truth he is the anti-pope, IMHO.
Pope Pius X wrote in 1907 in Pascendi about the infiltration of the Catholic Church by the Modernists. VII allowed the sewer of Marxist Theory to corrupt and warp ALL the TRADITIONS and destroy the beauty and harmony of the Mass, and force mature masculine males and boys OUT by the extreme Feminization (Marxism) and emasculation (homosexualization) of the Church.
I am a Thomist——and follow the Catholic Canon and the VERY traditional (Latin) “mass”. Truth never changes——sodomy is a vile, evil use of the human body and those who have that “worldview” are intrinsically disordered-—as the Catholic Canon so brilliantly KNOWS.
People who get aroused by anal cavities are really sick and demonic. It mocks not only the human body—it mocks God and equates Life to Excrement. It is the most dehumanizing and Satanic act a person can do. It is an abomination.
now is not the time to leave the ship...
“We must accompany [gay people] as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open,” he said in a 2006 religious education lecture in Los Angeles. “This means watching ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord.”
So when Jesus told the adulterous woman to go and sin no more he was wrong to do that and should have instead gone to meet her lover...and instead of the apostles praising the former sinners in Corinthians they should have rebuked them for denying themselves the fleshly desires!!!!//s
YOU POSTED THE ARTICLE. THE FEEBLE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS IN THE ARTICLE!
London, Ontario's Father Paul Nicholson suggested in his blog that observers can wonder how much Pope Francis knows about Father Radcliffe.
“The Holy Father is only a man, and is limited in how much he can know about any and every appointment,” Father Nicholson wrote. “His primary language is Spanish and perhaps he has not been sufficiently briefed. And that may be done intentionally by those around him.”
I'M CATHOLIC AND HAVE NO USE FOR FRANCIS.
The faith is Jesus Christ and God. Not worshiping the church.
All homosexuality is learned behavior—from child abuse and/or neglect-—that is why it is such a vile abomination....that adults warp and emasculate little boys (like the Afghani harem boys or Spartan boys) and remove mature loving male role models (fathers) or allow their boys (or girls) to be raped by peers/adults and totally warp the child’s desires, so their Reality is intrinsically disordered and embedded desires are unnatural and sick.
It all stems from the destruction of the Natural Family and putting children in artificial environments. The Catholic Church NEVER recommended Kindergarten—EVEN until VII.....because of the removal of children from the Natural Family before the age of Reason. Parents are the “teachers” and you do NOT remove children from the protection of the family until they are 8 or older-—and YOU tutor them (read to them and teach them about REAL LIFE experiences. Innocence is essential for normal sexual development. The hyper-sexualization is like the homosexual Weimar Republic was in 1919-—and we all know how sick and brutal the homosexual SS were and how they brutalized the Hitler Youth and the homosexual capos brutalized the boys in their concentration camps.
Well said. If this article is true then people must choose, today, whom they will follow, Christ, or the Catholic Church that has very publicly cast their lot with sin and set themselves against the Word of God.
Which is exactly why faithful Catholics don't abandon His Church. Because of our faith in Him and His word and promise that His church will lead us to all Truth. You do not walk away from that because of someone else.
It's understandable because the protestant tradition is more "democratic". Preacher not up to snuff? Fire him (or her). Don't like something being preached? Leave and go somewhere else or set up your own operation.
Let's put it in secular terms. So many people here on FR bemoan that the MSM sets the agenda and the narrative forcing politicians to address what we rightly perceive as a false narrative and not the crux of the matter (See Ted Cruz's recent response to the MSM about gay rights).
The same principle applies here. Those who think this is a "Catholic" problem are perpetuating the false narrative and asking Catholics to respond to it.
The Vatican, huh?
Oh..
Pope strikes again
There goes the MSM, mistranslating Pope Francis again.
Appointed as a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace should have been translated as “excommunicated”.
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