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Famed NYC St. Patrick's Cathedral says Catholic church was TRICKED into holding funeral for trans activist who was eulogized as 'mother of all whores'
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 18, 2024 | Dominic Yeatman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: catholic; duped; tricked
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To: Ken Regis

“Prevailed against” - from within


41 posted on 02/18/2024 9:06:20 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Morgana
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.

And an illegal too! Jackpot!

42 posted on 02/18/2024 9:06:58 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: stanne

They stopped “trying”.

They succeeded.


43 posted on 02/18/2024 9:07:25 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Why didn’t the priest shut it down when he saw what was happening?????????


44 posted on 02/18/2024 9:11:58 AM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Hambone 1934

“Why didn’t the priest shut it down when he saw what was happening?????????”

I’m wondering the same thing!!!


45 posted on 02/18/2024 9:14:44 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Someone okayed it ...


46 posted on 02/18/2024 9:20:10 AM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Morgana

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.


47 posted on 02/18/2024 9:20:18 AM PST by The Great RJ ( )
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To: Hambone 1934
"Why didn’t the priest shut it down when he saw what was happening?????????"

He should have.

48 posted on 02/18/2024 9:21:41 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Morgana

Desecration of a famous cathedral. Shame on the church


49 posted on 02/18/2024 9:22:40 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: ClearCase_guy

there must be a “fellow traveller” in St Pats


50 posted on 02/18/2024 9:31:46 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Morgana
Famed NYC St. Patrick's Cathedral says Catholic church was TRICKED into holding funeral for trans activist who was eulogized as 'mother of all whores'

Nobody, connected with St Patricks did a google name search?

51 posted on 02/18/2024 9:46:38 AM PST by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Morgana

Yet another victim of circumstance.


52 posted on 02/18/2024 9:47:27 AM PST by caddie
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


53 posted on 02/18/2024 9:56:25 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: Morgana

Can anyone tell me what “mass of reparation” does?


54 posted on 02/18/2024 10:14:33 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Morgana
The Mass SHOULD have been STOPPED right there!!!

This transgender DISGUSTING FREAK was an ATHEIST, NOT A CATHOLIC!!

55 posted on 02/18/2024 10:20:08 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PGR88

Hello....in the 1990’s Catholics were still going to Mass and getting married in the Church!! You are forgetting the times.


56 posted on 02/18/2024 10:21:57 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cgbg

That was a DISGUSTING comment. Bigoted and Stupid.


57 posted on 02/18/2024 10:23:32 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Morgana

AMEN!


58 posted on 02/18/2024 10:24:13 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tench_Coxe; Steve_Seattle

I watched bits and pieces of the video. I want to vomit now.


59 posted on 02/18/2024 10:24:15 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Ann Archy

Which one?

I made several.

Lol.

Keep trusting the church officials and they will burn you—again and again and again and again....


60 posted on 02/18/2024 10:24:49 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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