New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist Cecilia Gentili at cathedral 'scandalous'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’

Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’

Edward Helmore in New York City
Sun 18 Feb 2024 19.04 GMT
First published on Sun 18 Feb 2024 15.47 GMT

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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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/18/new-york-archdiocese-funeral-trans-activist-cecilia-gentili

[stopdiggin]

1. didn't go exactly as planned ??

question: why is the funeral for an atheist being held in the Catholic church? seems - off?

[Think. Again.]

3. Yeah, off, but fun!

[dutch777]

4. The deceased wanted it. She said she was an icon and she wanted her service to be in iconic St. Pat's

Iconic location for an trans icon. A bit incongruous but churches do usually like to say they are welcoming to all. Guess that just got tested.

[stopdiggin]

7. thank you. framed that way - I guess that make some sense.

[Biophilic]

2. I believe this kind of thing, activits coming togather, for what ever reason, scares those men to pieces.

This kind of gathering reminds people that the "masses" are not going to sit quietly and do as they are told. Sorry old, white men. Your time is done. There will be lots of battles to come, but I seriously don't believe people will go back to being good little sheep. I sincerely hope not.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The oppressed and the patrons are not mutually exclusive. /nt

[dutch777]

6. Yes and nothing scandalous was ever propagated within the Catholic church or covered up by it for say, centuries.

I don't exactly agree with the family being dishonest to whatever degree but hard to feel bad for the Catholic church in an instance like this.

[Permanut]

8. This would be the same group of old men..

who have had to pay $65 million in abuse settlements.

Just sayin.

[keithbvadu2]

9. 'Scandalous' would be the CC protecting pedophile priests and moving them around to prey over new children for many deca

'Scandalous' would be the CC protecting pedophile priests and moving them around to prey over new children for many decades.