The cardinals of the Holy Catholic Church are the pope’s main collaborators and advisors in governing the Universal Church. During the sede vacante period, after a pope dies, it is up to them to govern the Church and the Vatican State without any innovation. Then, their primary task is to elect the new pope.
Given their high position in the Church, they are called Eminence and wear scarlet red garments, symbolizing their willingness to shed their blood for the Faith. Since any of them can be elected pope, they are treated as crown princes in government ceremonies in many Catholic countries.
New Cardinals, New Style
Popes used to choose cardinals from among ecclesiastics who stood out for their piety and wisdom or presided over ancient or important dioceses.
In his choice of cardinals, Pope Francis has favored churchmen from the ”peripheries” and prelates with his ideological orientation, especially when it comes to sexual morality and homosexual practice.
According to various sources, several prelates among the new cardinals designated earlier this month, and who will receive their red hats on December 8, have shown support or sympathy for so-called “LGBTQ+,” which, in addition to practicing homosexuals, include so-called “transgenders” who deform their bodies and minds to present themselves as members of the opposite sex.
A “Number of LGBTQ-Positive New Cardinals”
New Ways Ministry, an organization that claims to be Catholic but defends homosexuality and transgenderism, published an article about the new cardinals titled: “Pope’s Next Consistory Will Have a Number of LGBTQ-Positive New Cardinals.”1
The author, Robert Shine, mentions several newly designated cardinals as sympathizers of the homosexual movement but highlights the activism of Father Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., who was Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 2001.
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Shine writes: “Father Timothy Radcliffe, OP: A theologian and former Master of the Dominican Order (top worldwide leader), Radcliffe has an LGBTQ+ record dating to the 1990s. Most recently, he has served as spiritual assistant to the Synod on Synodality’s General Assembly, where he has broached LGBTQ+ topics at least twice.” The author then names numerous pro-homosexual positions taken by this Dominican friar.2
Colombian Friar Nelson Medina, also a Dominican, says about Friar Radcliffe: “Just to quote one of his texts, in November 2005, he published an extensive article in The Tablet titled ‘Can Gays be Priests?’…Let’s quote one of his sentences: ‘A vocation is a call from God. Having worked with bishops and priests all over the world, I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met.’”3
A False Erotic-Homosexual Mysticism
What has most scandalized the faithful is the relationship that Fr. Radcliffe establishes between the homosexual act and the Eucharist.
The Church of England solicited his theological advice for its 2013 Pilling Report on human sexuality. He wrote: “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.”4
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To understand this blasphemous statement better, it is worth reading what he wrote in the Church Times, a London-based Anglican publication, on April 16, 2008: “And so it was that when Jesus wished to establish the new covenant between God and humanity, he gathered the disciples for a meal. He blessed and broke the bread and shared it. Eating did not just become the ingestion of nutrition, but expressed the common life of divinity and humanity. So it is with sexual intercourse.”
Further on, he states: “At the heart of our religion is the gift of a body.”5 This is similar to what he wrote in the preface to the English edition of The Via Crucis of a Gay Man by the Italian homosexual writer Luigi Testa: “The goodness of our bodily existence is at the heart of the greatest Christian teachings: Creation, Incarnation, the gift of Christ’s body in the Eucharist, the resurrection of the dead.” He ends his preface by thanking God for the homosexual author’s insight: “Luigi’s Via Crucis tells of a gay Christian following the Lord in all the real complexity of a human life. Thanks be to God!”6
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That Pope Francis called on Fr. Radcliffe to preach the retreats at the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality in 2023 and 2024 and has now designated him to be a cardinal shows an appreciation for his false mysticism and moral teaching.
Nevertheless, Fr. Radcliff’s pseudo-mysticism and morality contradict the Ten Commandments, Catholic morality, and the doctrine revealed and taught by the Church Magisterium. They seem to be a repackaged continuation of the Gnostic heresies of the Church’s early days.
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Writing about the contempt of these Gnostic heresies for the Law of God, Fr. G. Bareille notes: “[Gnostic] metaphysics serves only as a shiny veil over the worst claims of sensuality. Skillfully presented to seduce spirits thirsty for science, it tends only to restore pagan morality… [In] the name of Christianity and using the Holy Scriptures, it seeks nothing but to put the Gospel at the service of lust.”7
“Behold, I Come Quickly”
In the sadness of our times, when shadows seem to veil the glorious light of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we must be sure that, just as calm follows the storm, so too will the Church shine again, and soon, in all her splendor, in a serene and radiant morning.
As the Apocalypse affirms, “Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to every man according to his works” (Apoc. 22:12).
Confident in the triumph of Christ the King and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we should obey Saint Peter, who exhorts, “Resist ye, strong in faith” (1 Pet. 5:9).
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Footnotes
- Robert Shine, “Pope’s Next Consistory Will Have a Number of LGBTQ-Positive New Cardinals,” by Robert Shine, Managing Editor, New Ways Ministry.org, Oct. 7, 2024, https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/10/07/popes-next-consistory-will-have-a-number-of-lgbtq-positive-new-cardinals/. 10/7/24
- Shine, “Pope’s Next Consistory.”
- Fray Nelson, “Hablemos de homosexualidad en la Iglesia,” Infocatolica.com, Aug. 19, 2024 , el 19.08.24, https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/mundoescorinto.php/2408190323-hablemos-de-homosexualidad-en 10/15/24. (All emphases in this article are mine.)
- Church of England, Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality (The Pilling Report), Church House Publishing, Nov. 2013, (Kindle version), par. 266, pp. 84-85. See also, Michael Haynes, “Pope Iinvites Nnotorious Ppro-LGBT Ppriest to Llead Kkey Synod Rretreat for Bbishops,” LifeSiteNews.com, Jan. 23, 2023, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-invites-notorious-pro-lgbt-priest-to-lead-key-synod-retreat-for-bishops/. 10/15/24
- Timothy Radcliffe, “This Is My Body, Given for You,” Church Times, Apr. 18, 2008, “ https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2008/18-april/features/this-is-my-body-given-for-you. , 10/15/24
- Timothy Radcliffe, “We Cannot Embrace Our Faith if We Reject Our Bodies,” Outreach.faith, Jul. 30, 2024, https://outreach.faith/2024/07/timothy-radcliffe-o-p-we-cannot-embrace-our-faith-if-we-reject-our-bodies/. See https://books.google.com/books?id=XIgPEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false; “Tutti i passi che mi hanno portato qui”. L’incontro di un ragazzo gay col Papa, 10/15/24
- G. Bareille, Antinomisme, Dictionnaire de tThéologie cCatholique, (Paris: t. premier, deuxime partie, Letouzay et Ané, 1931), 1-2e partie, col. 1393, s.v. “Antinomisme.”.