Pope’s LGBT Welcoming Committee Less Harmful Than His Stamp On Global Warming

by Judi McLeod

In putting a papal stamp on Obama’s global warming charade as the biggest scourge on humanity, even more so than Islamic terrorism, Pope Francis has the potential to do real harm

Although it’s being media-portrayed as the opposite, Pope Francis does not have to wait to meet gay and LGBT activists in the welcoming committee at the ceremony organized by the White House on Sept. 23.

Last May, the pontiff already installed at least one of them in his own most cherished cabal.

Why would anyone—most of all the Vatican—reel in pretend shock and horror that Gene Robinson—the first openly gay man to be made an Episcopal bishop—who initially divorced his faithful wife of some 14 years for a same sex partner, that he soon left in his dust, will be large as life at the pope’s DC welcoming committee?

“The Vatican has taken offense at the Obama administration’s decision to invite to the pope’s welcome ceremony transgender activists, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an activist nun who leads a group criticized by the Vatican for its silence on abortion and euthanasia,”noted a Sept. 17 story in The Wall Street Journal.”

With the road paved for gay activists already inside the pope’s working committees, who is the Vatican really kidding?

Are Robinson and the LGBT really any worse than Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, who says gay sex can express Jesus’ “self-gift”?

“On May 16, 2015, Vatican Radio reported that Pope Francis had named Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, whomThe Boston Globe‘s Catholic website CRUX calls “a strong ally of Pope Francis,” a consultor of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. (Fellowship of Minds, Sept. 18, 2015)

“Note: The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (PCJP) is a department of the Roman Curia—the administrative apparatus of the Holy See—dedicated to “action-oriented studies” for the international promotion of justice, peace, and human rights from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church. Proposed by the Second Vatican Council “to stimulate the Catholic Community to foster progress in needy regions and social justice on the international scene,” PCJP was established by Pope Paul VI in 1967.

“The pope appoints roughly 40 members and consultors to the PCJP, according to their background and experience, who serve for five years, giving input to the planning for the Council. Vatican.va states that when the PCJP gathers for assemblies, it’s for discernment of the “signs of the times”—whatever that means.”

The following bio of the 70-year-old Radcliffe comes directly from Vatican Radio:

“Ordained in 1971, Fr Timothy is a long-time friend and contributor to Vatican Radio’s English Service.  He is a well-known preacher and speaker, and author of several books includingWhat is the point of being a Christian?  He served as Master of the Dominican Order from 1992 until 2001 and is now resident at the Dominican Priory at Blackfriars, Oxford (U.K.).  He has been a member of the Las Casas Advisory Board and Director of the Institute. He is an Honorary Doctor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

Las Casas is a “social justice” institute.

“Vatican Radio, however, left out a great deal about Radcliffe that should be of concern to traditional, orthodox, conservative Catholics.

“Lisa Bourne writes for LifeSiteNews, May 19, 2015, that Radcliffe is an outspoken proponent of homosexuality, as evidenced by the following:

• In 2005, as the Vatican deliberated the admission of men with homosexual tendencies to study for the priesthood in the wake of the Church sex abuse scandal, Radcliffe said homosexuality should not bar men from the priesthood and that those who oppose it should be banned. (Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, eventually ruled that men with homosexual tendencies are to be barred from being priests.)
• In a 2006 religious education lecture in Los Angeles, Radcliffe said, “We must accompany [gay people] 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.”
• As a contributor to the 2013 Anglican Pilling Report on human sexual ethics, Radcliffe said of homosexuality: “How does all of 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 would think that it can be expressive of Christ’s self-gift. We can also see how it can be expressive of mutual fidelity, a covenantal relationship in which two people bind themselves to each other for ever.”

Radcliffe often celebrated Mass for the U.K. dissident group Soho Masses Pastoral Council (now renamed the LGBT Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council). He is also a supporter of the proposal of to allow communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.”

Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. Radcliffe has drawn criticism from many Catholics. but that hasn’t stopped Fr. Radcliffe from being brought in as an insider.