https://abc7ny.com/nyc-st-patricks-cathedral-cecilia-gentili-funeral-cecila-cathedral/14441693/ MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- On the first Sunday of Lent, there is controversy surrounding a funeral service Thursday at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
This weekend, the cathedral's pastor offered a mass of reparation following the service for Cecilia Gentili, a well-known transgender advocate - a service that church leaders now describe as 'sacrilegious and deceptive.'
Thursday's funeral packed the cathedral with friends and members of a community expressing gratitude for her advocacy.
Some are questioning why a funeral for a trans activist and self-proclaimed atheist be held at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
The New York Archdiocese issued a statement saying, in part, '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.'
Gentili's family responded with a statement saying that all are supposed to be welcome,
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"We brought precious life and radical joy to the Cathedral in historic defiance of the Church's hypocrisy and anti-trans hatred. Cecilia Gentili's funeral service, which filled the pews in ways the Cathedral only can during Easter service and NYPD funerals, was a reflection of the love she had for her community and a testament to the impact of her tireless advocacy." New York's Catholic League issued a statement of its own, calling the event 'profane' and saying 'those who support defiling St. Patrick's Cathedral are rank anti-Catholic bigots who look, talk, and act like deranged men and women.' And taking issue with the funeral being led by a Catholic priest who referred to Gentili as a woman. Meanwhile, Fr. Eric Andrews, a pastor at nearby St. Paul the Apostle Church, which is Catholic and LGBTQ-friendly, posted on social media hinting that the Cathedral could have done some homework, writing, "Pro Tip: It is good pastoral practice to reach out to the family of the deceased directly to express condolences and to plan a funeral liturgy--and by all means google the name of the person to learn as much as you can about their life. Beyond that, all I can say to our neighboring parish is: Welcome to LGBTQ Ministry." Gentili was an icon in the LGBTQ community, known and truly beloved for her decades of advocacy and activism. Actor Billy Porter was among those in attendance on Thursday to say goodbye. Since the funeral was officiated by Catholic priests, it did not raise too many questions at first. Gentili's family declined to talk on camera because they are grieving.
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>>1268648 >Radical joy >By the way we hate your religion These people are lower than animals.
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>>1268653 But enough about catholics...
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> and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way.' >we pray for you and welcome you >by the way, your existence degraded our halls and is sacrilegious Truly these bigots are lower than shit.
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>>1268683 That didn't make sense.
>>1268684 A place for good people to worship is not a place for Molech's faithful to defile.
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>>1268647 OMG look at the disgusting bag of barf.
Ugh.
>Not a mental illness >No self harm OK. If you say so looney troon.
And the troons hate religion. I wonder if it's family decided this so it could atone and burried it with it's birth name on it's tombstone.
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How long until the state forces churches to accept troon funerals?
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>>1268707 >>1268708 Imagine becoming this morally outraged
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>>1268708 >i don't like this thing who cares, stop spamming
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>>1268707 In ten thousand year he's going to be dug up and they're going to think the cheek and chin implants are pottery and the breast implants are squishy toys and ask, "Why would a grown man be buried with such things?"
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>>1268710 >I don't like this thing >Quit spamming >You're knocking my Trump thread spam off the main page >You makin' me angery! Anonymous
>>1268712 so you won't stop spamming
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>>1268713 I'm not even the OP. I'm just noticing.
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>>1268712 >Trump thread spam Imagine being this confused about what board you're posting on.
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>>1268719 The Trump spam thread board? That shit belongs on Reddit.
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>>1268736 That's funny because you belong on /r/the_donald but they banned you in 2016 for being racists
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>>1268779 Yeah it was fun fucking around on Reddit for a while.
Oh, and they didn't ban the joint for racism. They banned it for being against the police.
Which was interesting since just a year or so later Reddit's official policy was adamantly against police.
But since I came from here to Reddit, and you came from Reddit to 4chan. You need to fuck off.
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>>1268783 chud headcanon is so wild
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The death of the church is on its way, thank fucking Christ Almighty. Most evil organization in history.
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>>1268838 Religiosity has been falling for decades. If you combine the secularization of the modern world with the fact that people have been becoming steadily disillusioned with the relevancy of the Catholic Church through nearly a century of fraud, sex abuse and financial corruption, its fair to say that the church, as it currently stands, is an organization that many people in the western world feel needs to either be destroyed or remade from the ground up.
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>>1268841 Hmm. Seems to be a short-sighted argument devoid of any actual knowledge of history.
>Most evil organization in history. Do you want to try again?
Oh, and threadly reminder: the sexual abuse was at the hands of homosexuals who the church allowed to serve as priests in opposition to the historic teachings of the religion.
Goes to show you, never trust an LGBT.
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>>1268845 >we protected molesting priests but let's just call them lgbt now to save our own necks Anonymous
>>1268846 Shitty deflection. Well, they were homosexuals, no?
Or are 100% of....?
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>>1268848 >Or are 100% of... It's amazing how terrified faggots are of this sentence.
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>>1268848 if you believe in god i'm not sure why you would need a scapegoat
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>>1268850 Never ask a woman her age.
Never ask a man his salary.
And never ask a liberal what the Q in LGBTQ means.
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hung by thine own petard, thou retard
hung by thine own petard, thou retard Tue 20 Feb 2024 03:28:07 No. 1268863 Report >>1268648 >rank anti-Catholic bigots who look, talk, and act like deranged men and women. The N*gg*rs are rank anti-human bigots who look, talk, and act like deranged humans
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>>1268863 people judge you just the same, well done
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>>1268853 >scapegoat I'm not jewish. But hopefully Judaism is failing.
It's been a corrupt institution for thousands of years to the point a pacifist flipped their fucking tables.
It would be about time for it to end.
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>>1268870 2,000 more years?
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>>1268871 Of Jewish bullshit? Probably not gonna happen.
Even God hates them for fucking with him.
Eruvs. Scapgoats. As if God doesn't know.
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>>1268872 idk man you might want to focus on you
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>>1268848 >shitty deflection >Oh, and threadly reminder: the sexual abuse was at the hands of homosexuals, not my le precious church! Anonymous
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>>1268875 This is really a no-win situation for you.
Why do you faggots try to argue the point?
If it's the church's fault, their mistake was letting in fags.
If it's the faggot's fault, well it's because 100% of chomos are LGBTQ.