This is news that should have made the rounds of the world in all Catholic media.
InfoVaticana published this week a story with real impact on that much-discussed seamless tunic of Christ these days. A truly relevant piece of news, one that causes scandal: a cardinal of the Church who participated barely a year ago in the conclave that elected Leo XIV—and with significant involvement—has publicly concelebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for the 50th anniversary of a homosexual couple, whom he also ritually blessed.
We are not talking about just any cleric. Timothy Radcliffe not only took part in the conclave: he was the cardinal chosen by Leo XIV to open with his meditation the first consistory of cardinals of his pontificate, in January 2026. We are therefore speaking of one of the figures of greatest doctrinal influence in the Catholic Church today.
According to what we published in InfoVaticana—and it is something perfectly public, because it was a public Mass, broadcast on video by the organizers themselves—on June 13, the church of Holy Apostles in London hosted a “Mass of thanksgiving for 50 years of friendship, union, and commitment” in honor of Julian Filochowski and Martin Pendergast, two well-known homosexual activists who have lived together as a couple since 1976.
Radcliffe preached the homily and concelebrated alongside two English emeritus bishops. At the end of the celebration, all the clergy present imparted a ritual blessing with a fixed text to the couple. And, adding extreme gravity, one of the two honorees distributed the Blood of Christ to the attendees during Communion, under the cardinal’s gaze.
This is extremely serious. This truly tears the tunic: not in administrative terms, but in doctrinal ones. It breaks the meaning of the sacraments, the sense of the sacredness of the family, what the Church has understood and understands about love and its proper channels, about the holy sacrifice of the Mass, about blessings. And the tear has been caused by one of the cardinals recognized today as a current doctrinal reference.
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