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Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York City has condemned a funeral service for the transgender activist Cecilia Gentili at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral after congregants cheered her for being celebrated as “the mother of all whores”.
The packed funeral – organisers reported 1,400 mourners – took place on Thursday, 10 days after the Argentinian-born Gentili, 52, died at her Brooklyn home.
Gentili was an activist and actor known for her advocacy on behalf of sex workers, as well as an atheist and author of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist. Her cause of death has not been revealed.
The archdiocese condemned the funeral, saying some mourners behaved scandalously at the service, which featured a turnout closer in number to the midtown Manhattan cathedral’s jam-packed Easter mass than a normal Thursday, with many transgender congregants lavishly dressed for Gentili’s send-off.
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Not nearly as scandalous as all the kids his employees have raped.
By employees, I mean priests. Who used their position of trust to groom kids.
Priorities, amirite?
And I would like to point out that the “cool pope” doesn’t think sexual assault of children should be reported to the police.
Yup.
I don’t think the pope cares so much about doing the right thing, as trying to reform the church before it dies off. LGBTQ and tolerance is the least offensive thing to reform- in terms of maintaining their power base.
Exactly, the hypocrisy is thick as molasses.
Treating a Sex worker with respect who do they think they are? Jesus?
The church needs to follow the teachings of brown Jesus more and white Jesus less.
But Catholic church, if you keep being total backwards dicks to people won’t you eventually destroy the very . . .
Nevermind.
Huh, well someone let saint vitalis know he can fuck off I guess.
But doesn’t mention actual scandals that have happened under him
