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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“Prevailed against” - from within
And an illegal too! Jackpot!
They stopped “trying”.
They succeeded.
Why didn’t the priest shut it down when he saw what was happening?????????
“Why didn’t the priest shut it down when he saw what was happening?????????”
I’m wondering the same thing!!!
Someone okayed it ...
I doubt Church officials were “tricked” into having this satanic orgy in St Patrick’s. Someone knew full well who this individual was and allowed this blasphemy to occur in the church. At least a mass of reparation is being held to cleanse the evil, but an exorcism might be more appropriate.
He should have.
Desecration of a famous cathedral. Shame on the church
there must be a “fellow traveller” in St Pats
Nobody, connected with St Patricks did a google name search?
Yet another victim of circumstance.
There is background check for marriages but not for funerals. Most parishes would take someone at their word. That being said, the whole thing should have been cancelled once it was clear what was going on.
Can anyone tell me what “mass of reparation” does?
This transgender DISGUSTING FREAK was an ATHEIST, NOT A CATHOLIC!!
Hello....in the 1990’s Catholics were still going to Mass and getting married in the Church!! You are forgetting the times.
That was a DISGUSTING comment. Bigoted and Stupid.
AMEN!
I watched bits and pieces of the video. I want to vomit now.
Which one?
I made several.
Lol.
Keep trusting the church officials and they will burn you—again and again and again and again....
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