Timothy Radcliffe

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Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe Script error: No such module "If empty". (born 22 August 1945) is an English Catholic priest who served as Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 2001. He was created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2024.

He is the only friar of the Dominican Order's English Province to hold the office of Master-General. Radcliffe was previously director of the Las Casas Institute at Oxford University, promoting social justice and human rights.

Biography

Formation

Born in 1945 of aristocratic descent, the third of five sons to Lt-Col. Hugh Radcliffe (1911–1993)[1] and Mariequita née Pereira (1916–2005), he is in remainder to the Radcliffe baronetcy.[2] His cousin, Sir Sebastian Radcliffe, 7th and present baronet, lives at the Château de Cheseaux in Switzerland and his eldest brother, Mark Radcliffe (born 1938), was High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1996/97.[3]

After attending Worth Preparatory School (Worth School) in Sussex[4] and Downside School in Somerset,[5] Radcliffe went up to read Theology at St John's College, Oxford, graduating MA (elected Honorary Fellow, 1993).[6] Then he entered the Dominican Order in 1965 and was ordained a priest in 1971.[7]

Career

During the mid-1970s, Radcliffe was based at the West London Catholic Chaplaincy. A Fellow then Prior of Blackfriars, he taught scriptures at Oxford and was elected Prior Provincial of England in 1988.[8] In 1992, he was elected Master of the Dominican Order, holding that office until 2001.[7] During his tenure as Master, Radcliffe served as ex-officio Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.[9]

In 2001, after the expiration of his term as Master, Radcliffe took a sabbatical year, before in 2002, again serving as a simple member of the Dominican community in Oxford.

After serving for several years on the advisory board of the Las Casas Institute, which "critical reflection on questions of human dignity in the light of Catholic social teaching and theology", he was appointed the Institute's director in April 2014.[10] His term as director ended after two years and he continued thereafter as a member of its advisory board.[11][12] Radcliffe continued preaching and public speaking internationally.

In 2015, Radcliffe was named a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.[13][14]Template:Efn

Although not a topic Radcliffe has often written on in his numerous publications, he has publicly defended Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage:[15]

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Radcliffe is a Patron of Positive Faith, the main ministry of Catholic AIDS Prevention and Support,[16] sits on the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament,[17] and is a Patron of Embrace the Middle East.[18]

In January 2023, Pope Francis named Radcliffe to lead a three-day preparatory retreat for participants in the Synod on Synodality in October 2023.[19] He returned to deliver the preparatory retreat for the October 2024 part of the same synod.[20]

Cardinalate

On 6 October 2024, the Vatican announced that Radcliffe would be created a cardinal on 8 December,[21] with the date of his installation by the Pope at St Peter's Basilica later being updated to 7 December.[22]

Pope Francis granted him a rare dispensation from the requirement that all cardinals must be bishops, and on 7 December 2024 created Radcliffe a Cardinal, designating him as a member of the Order of Cardinal Deacons and assigning to him the deaconry of Chiesa dei Santi Nomi di Gesù e Maria.[23][24] At the consistory Radcliffe wore his Dominican white habit rather than a Cardinal's red robes, returning to the tradition that a member of an Order who becomes a Cardinal does not change his dress.[25] He participated as a cardinal elector in the 2025 papal conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.[26]

Honours

In 2003, Oxford awarded Radcliffe an honorary doctorate of Divinity,[27] with the Chancellor (Rt Hon. Christopher Patten) citing the following:[28]

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Radcliffe received the 2007 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing for his book What Is the Point of Being A Christian?[29]

An Honorary Doctor of Philosophy of Providence College Rhode Island, Radcliffe also received in 2024 the degree of Hon. DD from Liverpool Hope University.[30]

Bibliography

Books

  • Sing a New Song. The Christian Vocation. Dublin: Dominican Publications, 1999. Template:ISBN
  • I Call You Friends. London: Continuum, 2001. Template:ISBN
  • Seven Last Words. London: Burns & Oates, 2004. Template:ISBN
  • What Is the Point of Being A Christian? London and New York: Burns & Oates, 2005. Template:ISBN
  • Just One Year: Prayer and Worship through the Christian Year, edited by Timothy Radcliffe with Jean Harrison. London: Darton, Longman & Todd for CAFOD and Christian Aid, 2006. Template:ISBN
  • Why Go to Church? The Drama of the Eucharist. London: Continuum, 2008. Template:ISBN. Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book 2009
  • Christians and Sexuality in the Time of AIDS, with Lytta Bassett. London: Continuum. Template:ISBN
  • Take the Plunge: Living Baptism and Confirmation. London: Burns & Oates, 2012. Template:ISBN
  • The Hope that is Within You: interviewed by Raymond Friel. Redemptorist Publications. April 2016. Template:ISBN
  • Alive in God: A Christian Imagination. London: Bloomsbury Continuum 2019 Template:ISBN

Articles

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Letters to the Order

  • Vowed to Mission (1994)
  • The Wellspring of Hope. Study and the Annunciation of the Good News (1996)
  • The Identity of Religious Today (1996)
  • Dominican Freedom and Responsibility. Towards a Spirituality of Government (1997)
  • The Bear and the Nun : What is the Sense of Religious Life Today! (1998)
  • The Promise of Life (1998)
  • The Rosary (1998)
  • Letter to our Brothers and Sisters in Initial Formation (1999)
  • To Praise, to Bless, to Preach. The Mission of the Dominican Family (2000)
  • The Throne of God (2000)
  • St Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), Patroness of Europe (2000)
  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan (2001)
  • A City set on a hilltop cannot be hidden: A Contemplative Life (2001)
  • Mission to a Runaway World: Future Citizens of the Kingdom (2002).

See also

References

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