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 Gulf countries."
The
article was a translation of a text that was first published in April in
the anti-Catholic TheTablet.co.uk. It is a slightly modified lecture
given by Fr Radcliffe on Good Friday at Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe.
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