This whore. This great whore. St. Cecilia, Mother of all Whores!#CeciliaGentili pic.twitter.com/pDwZsK10ue
— Revd Leon von Jakobus 🧭 (@TheRevLeon) February 18, 2024
Here’s Fr. Edward Dougherty (according to TIME) officiating the funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for trans activist and prostitute Cecilia Gentili, joking, “Except on Easter Sunday, we don’t really have a crowd that is this well turned out,” to which the crowd of trans… pic.twitter.com/3gYehwdxcq
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) February 16, 2024
Many people believe it is inappropriate to have gay satanic rituals inside Catholic churches.
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York City has condemned a funeral service for transgender activist Cecilia Gentili at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral after congregants cheered her for being celebrated as “the mother of all whores”.
Eve is the mother of all whores.
So it’s blasphemous on a number of different levels.
The packed funeral 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 a self-professed atheist, drug addict and author of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist. Her cause of death has not been revealed.
Cecilia Gentili
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.
The archdiocese released a statement on Saturday saying it had “no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way”. The pastor of Saint Patrick’s, Enrique Salvo, said the church was not aware of Gentili’s background or beliefs when it booked the service.
It’s actually not the Church’s job to do research on that.
Though, apparently, they are going to have to start doing it.
Before the service was held, the archdiocese had described it as a routine event and had been informed that Gentili was a transgender activist.
“The cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral mass,” he said. Yet some mourners then exhibited “scandalous behaviour”, the church said.
The church said it did not take issue with Gentili’s sexuality. But the church objected to the actions of some of the mourners, including some who cheered loudly when Gentili was hailed as “Santa Cecilia, la madre de todos las putas” – which is Spanish for “Saint Cecilia, the mother of all whores”.
These people should all be in prison.
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