Posted on 05/16/2015 10:00:28 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Breaking: Pope Appoints Fr. Timothy Radcliffe Consultor for Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace by Christine Niles • May 16, 2015,
ROME, May 16, 2015 (ChurchMilitant.com) - Vatican Radio announced today that Dominican Fr. Timothy Radcliffe is being appointed as consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
A former Master General of the international Dominican Order of Preachers, Fr. Radcliffe is a well-known proponent of progressive ideology and has expressed views sympathetic to the homosexualist agenda. He often celebrated Mass for the U.K. dissident group Soho Masses Pastoral Council (now renamed the LGBT Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council), whose gay Masses in London went on for six years before being shut down by Cardinal Vincent Nichols. The Pastoral Council has hosted gay activist speakers, including two openly homosexual priests (one of them "married" to his male partner) at a conference in 2013.
Controversy arose when Radcliffe was chosen to be keynote speaker at last year's Divine Mercy Conference, held in Dublin. A number of groups called to rescind the invitation, and Eternal Word Television Network in Ireland found it sufficiently scandalous to refuse to cover the event. Instead, EWTN Radio devoted an episode featuring commentary from a priest from the EnCourage apostolate, a faithful Catholic organization that ministers to those struggling with same-sex attraction, to discuss Radcliffe's heterodox leanings.
Radcliffe has spoken of same-sex relations in positive terms. In the 2013 Pilling Report titled "Working Group on Human Sexuality," published by the Church of England, he offered the following on 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 would think that it can be expressive of Christ’s self-gift.
And in 2012, in the liberal U.K. paper The Tablet, he praised same-sex civil unions:
This is not to denigrate committed love of people of the same sex. This too 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.
Be sure to read the whole link. This guy gets worse the more you read about him.
Another priceless quote from this clown:
“We must accompany them as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open. This means watching “Brokeback Mountain,” reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord. ... We are not a sign of God’s freedom until we can dare to belong to each other across every theological boundary.”
I like how the first sentence talks about things being “stretched open.” Freudian slip or intentional?
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AMEN!
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Just poorly catechized. And doesn’t speak for the Church.
I must admit, as a conservative Protestant who considers Roman Catholicism wrong in teaching the Pope is the successor to St. Peter, I almost hope this pope goes full bore liberal—maybe even making wrong pronouncements ex-cathedra, just to prove to the conservative RC faithful, that their doctrines about the papacy are mistaken.
Might well make true ecumenicism among all conservative, orthodox Christians easier...
The Pope or Radcliffe? The Pope sure does speak for the Catholic Church, and he is speaking loud and clear by appointments like these. This guy is not some ambiguous nobody that the Pope somehow just didn't know who he is. He is a Loony toons Priest who is being made a Consultor exactly because of the things he says.
The Pope has been walking a fine line because he knows everything he says is scrutinized by the Traditionalists. I can tell in the way he operates that everytime he says something stupid and there is a backlash, he reacts to it. He’s conscious of it and doesn’t want to drive off the Trads who still pay tithes. No, he will not speak heresy directly (at least, not yet), he will accomplish it through the backdoor through men like these.
May a bird crap on your head too.
The church has endured worse. Most simply ignore him.
Considering you guys have been excusing your Popes kissing Korans or people like Mother Theresa declaring that it is not necessary to be Catholic, or even Christian, to be saved, I do not think that an apostate Pope establishing heresy in the church is going to bother you much.
What I do think though is that once you die of old age or something, there won't be anybody else taking up your banner, because it's clear what the RCC really is to everybody but its traditionalists.
I’m not going to read “the whole link” this is that jesuit marxist liberation theory crapola about social justice.
NOT for me thank you very much
Throughtout history there are good Popes & bad Popes & this is a BAD BAD BAD POPE.
You know what really gets my goat? It’s these Catholics who still cling to reverence out of tradition especially the over 60’s. They just wanna go into the church & do “their job” by listening to the Mass & the priest gives the homily but AND MANY WORDS BE SAID by a lot of pastors about how American’s have to embrace or endorse as an angel= Mahmood Abbass in the name of “PEACE” for the benefit of the Catholic Church & the world???- that clown ain’t no angel.
I’m ao mad I’m spittin’ wooden nickels.
If this crapola is going to continue from this Pope then I seriously think you should prepare your soul(s)
& find a home Mass & leave those pews empty-when those local priests support the Pope & the Palestinians.
This ISN”T creating peace. There have been no peace talks esp. with the Pope involved.
Of course when all the Christians & Yezidis were up on “Tabletop Mountain” & all the horrific killings of priests & citizens alike there was absolutely no comment from the Vatican-only many months l8r- “we pray for our brothers & sisters”.
I’m absolutely LIVID about this Pope. He should go back to the fascist hole crawled out from
wht?
nice arrow slings at the author but your interpretation is way way beyond what this means for Catholics.
of course it doesn’t speak to the Church people in the pews.
It’s now become Church policy & it’s ever meta-morphosizing policies- you know the old song & dance don’t you? the old “liberation theology” & social justice
social justice seems to be a code word for “anything that goes”. & By God how dare you challenge social justice and liberation theology.
bunch of tards
So many pope haters here. Aren’t you supposed to love and pray for your pope? He’s not going away. Maybe you should become a Lutheran. We sing and listen to the minister. Thats it. Such fun.
Do you really think that anything good would be served by a massive schism? That would be the result of what you're describing. What a gift for the devil; the "divide" part of "divide and conquer" already having been taken care of for him.
Personnel appointments are not teachings, and the faithful are under no obligation to to consider them wise, correct, admirable, or productive, etc.
And this one isn't any of those, though at least nobody really knows what the "Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace" actually does.
I pray that he isn't made a Cardinal.
Most of the people on this thread, including the OP, aren’t Catholic, in case you missed it.
I admit it gets a bit hard to hold out but so far he's confounded his eager critics every time.
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Actually that wouldn’t mean the teachings on the papacy are mistaken. It would mean that Francis is an anti-pope, a fraud.
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