Posted on 05/16/2015 3:28:17 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
"Good times for dissident Dominicans: Über-liberal Timothy Radcliffe appointed by Pope Francis as Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace"
The Vatican Bollettino for today reports that Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, has been appointed by Pope Francis as Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The former Master General of the Dominican Order is a prominent supporter of the Kasperite proposal in favor of communion for the "divorced and remarried". He has also spoken out in favor of the ordination of women, if not to the priesthood, then at least to the diaconate (see this.) However he is more famous for his frequent public interventions pushing for greater acceptance of homosexuality, having been a frequent celebrant of the infamous "gay Masses" in Soho, London. Rorate has noted his blatant support for homosexuality a couple of times (see this and this - scroll to the bottom of each post).
It is true that Radcliffe has "opposed" "gay marriage", but his farcical "opposition" rests on grounds entirely contrary to those of the Church: Radcliffe opposes it because, in his words: "'gay marriage' ultimately, we believe, demeans gay people by forcing them to conform to the straight world." His support for civil "same sex unions" and his lavish praise of homosexual "love" are a matter of public record, and led to repeated attempts last year by good and devout Catholics to prevent him from talking at the Divine Mercy Conference in Ireland (see this and this) and in San Diego, California (see this report on the Wanderer), as well as in the Flame 2 Youth Conference this year in London (read this). All these attempts failed -- and Radcliffe's acceptability has just received a major upgrade with this latest appointment. A tremendous slap to the face of so many good Catholics who had opposed him out of fidelity to the faith...
Radcliffe is not the only Dominican liberal and dissident riding high these days. Today's appointment comes only 4 days after Fr. Gusravo Gutierrez OP starred as the main speaker at a Vatican press conference. Another rising Dominican dissident is Bishop Jean Paul Vesco of Oran (Algeria), a young bishop (53 years old) who was provincial of the French Province of the Order of Preachers from 2010 to 2012 and a high-profile supporter of the Kasper proposal since last year; he is set to be a delegate to the 2015 Synod of Bishops.
"Dissenting on homosexuality Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP is a keynote speaker at Dublin’s 2014 Divine Mercy Conference"
Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, well-known liberal and dissenter, has bizarrely been chosen to be one of the keynote speakers at Dublin’s 2014 International Conference on Divine Mercy. Fr Radcliffe openly dissents on the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and Holy Communion for the divorced and re-married. Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP frequently celebrated Mass for the gay dissent group the Soho Masses Pastoral Council. During the reign of Pope Benedict XVI Fr Timothy Radcliffe was stopped from speaking at the General Assembly of the Catholic development agencies. Fr Radcliffe is well known for his liberal positions on morality, including his public opposition to the Church’s teaching on homosexuality.
http://protectthepope.com/?p=9494
Evil Dominican Tapped For Important Post
Edit: interesting that these appointments are going out over the weekend so people can’t comment as readily.
This is almost as hair raising as the Bishop of Rome’s retainer of this the predator enabler, Cardinal Daneels.
Even EWTN put their foot down since his violent advocacy for sexual deviancy is so pronounced.
Crux reports:
[Crux] One of the Church’s most controversial theologians, and a strong ally of Pope Francis, was given a boost by the Holy See Saturday.
In a move sure to raise eyebrows among the Church’s traditional guard, Pope Francis named the Rev. Timothy Radcliffe a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Vatican announced Saturday.
The head of the Dominican Order for nearly a decade in the 1990s and a professor of theology at Oxford, the English-born Radcliffe has repeatedly challenged Catholic attitudes toward women, gays and lesbians, and the divorced.
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2015/05/evil-dominican-tapped-for-important-post.html
The men of Sodom are being facilitated within the whole body of the Christian Church. It is one of the terrible signs of our darkening age.
I thought this was going to be about baseball.
Looking for any indication this is satire. Looking...looking...
I guess Pope Francis doesn’t think of Fr. of Volpi’s sudden illness as one of the surprises the Holy Ghost has in store for us.
One day, Francis may get a surprise he never expected.
:)
He seems to enjoy being surrounded by the smell of his lavender sheep.
Eh, blather, I’m sure this means nothing. /s
The Marxist liberation Pope rush pace to destroy the Church. Orthodoxy in the Vatican is out, radical liberation theology in and in charge.
He’s cleaning out the mess in the Curia. :-Q
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