Posted on 02/18/2024 8:10:01 AM PST by Morgana
New York's iconic St Patrick's Cathedral has claimed it was duped into holding a 'scandalous' funeral service for a transgender activist celebrated in the mass as 'the great whore'.
The Catholic cathedral which bills itself as 'America's parish church' has been ordered to hold a 'mass of reparation' after hundreds of scantily-clad admirers danced in the aisles for former sex worker Cecilia Gentili.
The self-proclaimed atheist died at 52 on February 6, and organizers have admitted they kept her identity 'kind of under wraps' when booking the mass with cathedral authorities.
Now the cathedral pastor has issued a groveling apology to his parishioners, thanking the 'many who have let us know they share our outrage'.
'The Cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral Mass for a Catholic, and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way,' Father Enrique Salvo said in statement. That such a scandal occurred at 'America's Parish Church' makes it worse.
'That it took place as Lent was beginning, the annual forty–day struggle with the forces of sin and darkness, is a potent reminder of how much we need the prayer, reparation, repentance, grace, and mercy to which this holy season invites us.'
Gentili, who was born in Argentina, took up sex work in New York City after moving illegally to the US and struggling to find a job in Miami.
In 2009 she was arrested on drug possession charges and imprisoned at Rikers Island, but freed with an ankle bracelet after a judge determined she could not be imprisoned safely with either men or women without risk of attack.
But she was granted asylum in 2012 and became a prominent campaigner for LGBT rights and HIV prevention.
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Now they say this?
The Catholic Church would never lie about anything....
Lol.
The leftists openly spit in our faces.
My aunt, who grew up at St. Patricks and whose family had been attending the church for 100 years, was unable to book her son’s marriage there (in the 1990s), the Church’s schedule was so full
But some transgender, satanic filth and their funeral can waltz right in, unknown and unvetted - does seem like total BS
So ... I’m a Protestant. If I were to contact a Catholic priest at any ol’ Catholic Church and say “I want to get married in your church”, that priest would check me out. Are you Catholic? What is your local church? Why not do it there? May I speak with your local clergy?
Did St Patrick’s in NYC do no vetting at all for this funeral service? The guy is an atheist. He’s a trans activist. He’s the mother of all whores. They just waved people on through and said, “Knock yourself out. Have any sort of funeral service you want”?
Not likely.
It wuz a trick. We didnt know.
The Satanists must have looked long and hard in the Catholic hierarchy to find some of their own to assist with this effort....
like ten seconds....
:-)
“The Catholic Church would never lie about anything....”
Okay you know what? I had never heard of this person until this story broke. So maybe Sister Mary Margaret Whatever in the church office, who took down the information for this funeral had never heard of this person too. Well you know Sister Mary Margaret does not get around the internet much, know what I mean?
Thing about it is the day of the funeral when Father walked in and saw the freak show pouring in, the pictures of the person in the box he could have then called it off. He still could have done Mass but not a funeral mass.
Am I correct anyone? Someone here who knows more about Canon Law tell me.
We were the victims of fraud and subterfuge. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Idiots.
Stop apologizing for the evil crazies who currently run the Catholic Church.
The hierarchy is a bunch of devil worshippers at this point.
They will shamelessly lie to you—and laugh at you for believing them.
There are no more excuses for being conned.
Tricked? Who exactly was tricked within the Archdiocese? Who was the priest who said the mass and allowed the abomination to continue? Something is rotten in New York.
You are absolutely correct. That is how its normally done.
I watched the video, and the officiating priest definitely did not act like someone who had been “tricked,” but seemed to be enjoying the whole spectacle.
You are probably correct. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Anymore I realize what the Virgin Mary said is coming true every day.
Saint Patrick is the saint I chose when I entered this Church. We need him back the snakes have returned.
They didn’t “lie”, they were “tricked”
Fooled
Cajoled
Misled
Diverted
Hoodwinked
Or,
“Prevailed against”
Could you post a link to that video? Thanks
Umm...I’m pretty sure Madonna is still alive.
It’s not just the Catholic Church that has been infiltrated. Most mainstream Protestant churches are also seeing this insanity, and now it’s even infected the evangelicals. The Bible predicted this strife and apostasy within the church as a sign of the approaching end.
THIS IS DISGUSTING.
THAT CHURCH IS NOW A PORTAL TO HELL AND BEWARE ALL WHO ENTER.
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