Writing for Life Site, Michael Haynes reports on the twenty-one new cardinals that Pope Francis has said will be created at a consistory on December 8 of this year.
Notable among them is the former Master General of the Order of Preachers, the Englishman, Father Timothy Radcliffe, who is well known for his promotion of homosexuality in the Church:
However, it is the inclusion of Fr. Radcliffe, O.P., which is the most notable and controversial. Radcliffe was master of the Dominican Order from 1992 to 2001, but his name is arguably more notorious for his prominent and persistent promotion of LGBT ideology, in contradiction with Catholic teaching.
Shortly before the Vatican issued its 2005 document reaffirming the ban on admitting men with “homosexual tendencies” into seminaries, Radcliffe publicly objected to the predicted ban. Writing to the London Times, Radcliffe argued that “[a]ny deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.”
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Months later, he encouraged Catholics to “accompany” and even live with homosexuals. “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.”
