JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: Urge that Fr Timothy Radcliffe is cancelled by Dublin's Divine Mercy Conference

Thursday 23 January 2014

Urge that Fr Timothy Radcliffe is cancelled by Dublin's Divine Mercy Conference

I have received the disturbing news that Fr Timothy Radcliffe O.P. is to be one of the guest speakers at this year's Divine Mercy Conference in Dublin on 22/23 February. Fr Radcliffe is well-known as a veteran dissenter from Catholic teaching on sexuality. Deacon Nick Donnelly of the excellent "Protect the Pope" blog has detailed Fr Radcliffe's dissent. In May 2011, LifeSiteNews.com reported that Fr Radcliffe's scheduled keynote speaking engagement at the general assembly of Caritas Internationalis had been cancelled by the Vatican.

Please urge - for the sake of the Gospel of Life, the truth & meaning of human sexuality and our children - that the Divine Mercy Conference withdraws its invitation to Fr Radcliffe. Please email:

Fr Michael Ross, spiritual director to the Divine Mercy committee: rossmichaeljohn@gmail.com
the conference committee: divinemercyconference@gmail.com

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About Me

I became involved in SPUC after graduating, when I established a branch in south London in 1974. I have worked full-time for SPUC for 42 years. I became chief executive of SPUC in the UK in 1996, having been general secretary since 1978. I was elected vice-president of International Right to Life Federation in 2005. At UN conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul and Rome, I helped coordinate more than 150 pro-life/pro-family groups resulting in pro-life victories in Cairo, Istanbul and Rome. I was educated at Salesian College, London, before going to Oxford where I graduated in English Language and Literature. I qualified as a teacher, becoming head of English at a secondary school. I am married to Josephine. We have a grown-up family and we live in north London.