When Those In Authority Ignore Those On The Ground
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In response to a LifeSiteNews question, Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP appeared to suggest that homosexuals could happily be priests providing they did not make their sexuality ‘the most important part of their identity.’
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Father Timothy Radcliffe, OP, the prominent pro-LGBT Dominican tasked with giving spiritual guidance to the Synod on Synodality, has reissued his prior defense of admitting those with homosexual tendencies to the seminary.
Radcliffe made his comments to LifeSiteNews during a press briefing on October 27 and appeared to suggest also that homosexuals could happily be priests providing they did not make their sexuality “the most important part of their identity.”
Fr. Radcliffe was former Master of the Dominican order from 1992 to 2001 and a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 2015.
He was anointed by Pope Francis to be one of the spiritual experts providing spiritual talks to the Synod on Synodality during the October 2023 meetings.
The move caused controversy given his past record on homosexuality and the priesthood.
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.”
Radcliffe argued in 2005 that if the upcoming document “were to contain such a ban (on men inclined to homosexuality), which is highly unlikely, most Catholics, at least in the West, would find it unacceptable.”
Then in an article for The Tablet, he said, “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.”
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Clearly this old queen champions the ordination of homosexual seminarian, because he’s also a degenerate, who has been hiding in the closet for decades. He’s a priest who should have never been ordained. These are the maggots that continue to pollute the church with their vile ways, and depravity. He’s just another “fake” priest spreading his religious rat poison. Shocking…positively shocking
I sadly remember the conman and degenerate who went by the incongruent name of Brother Augustine Packard. This buffoons actual and “real” name was Freeman Gibbs Packard. He was an ex-con who slithered into religious life, masquerading for years as a Saint John of God Brother. He spent a number of years in the state penitentiary for grand theft and embezzlement, when he was working, and stealing for a large movie studio in Hollywood. This sociopath tried to get me to smoke marijuana with him on many occasions, and was savagely murdered in Santa Ana California when he was out cruising for gay sex or illicit street drugs, or both. His official cause of death was “asphyxiation “, which means he was strangled to death by a violent dangerous killer, undoubtedly he was trying to pick and solicit a very rough “trick”, in a garbage filled back alley in Santa Ana. His killer to my knowledge has never been apprehended. He lost any spiritual protection he had, because he was living a lie for years. He was just an old conman and hustler who found a group of monks to take care of him, while he pursued his antisocial and illegal interests, all the whole pretending to be a religious brother with the Hospitallers. He told me that in prison they called new inmates, “ new meat” and “chicken on the line”. He shockingly told me turned bisexual in the joint because he was forced to orally copulate a number of “brothers” who told him he either “gave out, or got knocked out”! These were some of the chilling and horrify tales he told me when he was masquerading as a religious brother.