Fr Radcliffe Denies Having Said What He Said
Homosexual activist Timothy Radcliffe, an English Dominican and Neo-Cardinal, has denied making the controversial claim that the African bishops’ opposition to homosexual pseudo-blessings was "bought".
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo told a Vatican press conference on 22 October that he had spoken to Father Radcliffe during the ex-synod. "He is shocked that such things have been written and attributed to him. Father Radcliffe never said these things and this is not in keeping with his personality", Ambongo stated.
However, an article entitled "Lo spirito del Sinodo e l'ecclesiologia dei cappelli" [The spirit of the synod and the ecclesiology of the hats (sic)] appeared on October 12 in the Italian edition of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano under Father Radcliffe's name.
The article claimed that the African bishops were "under strong pressure from the Evangelicals, with American money; from the Russian Orthodox, with Russian money; and from the Muslims, with money from the rich …More