…. and Fr. Gerald Murray on the new “altar” of the new Notre Dame Cathedral. If the altar is absurdist, “unworthy, unsuitable, modernistic” does it not mock the very beauty which is supposed to enshrine it?

Making war on the Catholic Tradition. Catholic thinker and apologist Trent Horn writes, “Pope Francis announced that he would be elevating 21 men to the office of Cardinal and one of them is a Dominican priest named Fr. Timothy Radcliffe. He’s created controversy with his past statements about homosexuality so I wanted to go through a recent article he wrote for Fr. Martin’s Outreach magazine and show what’s so pernicious about his rhetoric. And after that, I’ll give some brief thoughts about Pope Francis selecting him to be a cardinal.

Fr. Gerald Murray slams Pope Francis making Timothy Radcliffe a … Cardinal 😜

First, like Fr. Martin, Fr. Radcliffe will talk out of both sides of his mouth making it seem like he’s perfectly orthodox. For example, some people quote him as saying regarding homosexuality, “I am convinced of the fundamental wisdom of the Church’s teaching” but they then leave out what he says next, “but I do not yet fully understand how this is to be lived by young gay Catholics who accept their sexuality and rightly long to express their affection.”

This can mean that he doesn’t know what positive steps a person should take in spite of this difficult cross to carry, or it could mean there is a way to express homosexual conduct that accords with some abstract fundamental principle like love your neighbor. Indeed, Fr. Radcliffe has previously disagreed with the Church’s policies on not allowing gay men to become priests and he wrote an article saying that in order to understand gay people we must do things like watch Brokeback mountain, a film about a gay adulterous relationship between two married cowboys.

In 2013 he contributed to a report from the Church of England where 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-giftCool, now do adultery, polyamory which is open adultery, masturbation, and bestiality. A person can be polite and still engage in perversion.

Romans 1…²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.²⁴ Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, ²⁷ and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.