St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. / Richard Trois via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2024 / 13:56 pm (CNA).
The pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City says the church has offered a Mass of Reparation after a controversial irreverent funeral service was held there this week for a well-known transgender advocate.
The Manhattan cathedral hosted the Feb. 15 funeral service for Cecilia Gentili, an activist who helped to decriminalize sex work in New York, lobbied for “gender identity” to be added as a protected class to the state’s human rights laws, and was a major fundraiser for transgender causes. Gentili was a man who identified as a woman.
Throughout the liturgy, the presider, Father Edward Dougherty, referred to Gentili with feminine pronouns and described the trans-identifying man as “our sister.” Additionally, during the prayers of the faithful, the reader prayed for so-called gender-a
To mark the 32nd World Day of the Sick, Frank La Rocca’s special Mass setting will be heard Feb. 10 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, Californi.
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New Ways Ministry, which dissents from Catholic teaching on homosexuality, criticized “The Body-Soul Unity of the Human Person,” a recent pastoral letter on gender ideology by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Michael Barber, SJ of Oakland.