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The funeral service (not a Mass) at New York’s St. Patrick’s cathedral for 52-year-old trans activist Cecilia Gentili was, in the words of the Rev. James Martin, “wonderful.”
The New York Times called the service “an exuberant piece of political theater,” then segued into how Pope Francis is encouraging the Church to be more open to the LGBTQ community.
But the massive protests outside the cathedral regarding the service had nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or openness to trans people at all. The protests had to do with using a sacred space as a political performance arena to further an agenda.
The organizer of the funeral, trans activist Ceyenne Doroshow, boasted of tricking the cathedral into holding what would become a blasphemous and sacrilegious event.
“I kept it under wraps,” Doroshow told the New York Times.
This is snake-in-the-grass lingo for, “I pulled a fast one on them,” although it’s anyone’s guess why someone in the New York Archdiocese never smelled a rat.
Did Doroshow arrange the funeral by phone, never coming into contact with a cathedral official, and was therefore able to hide his transgender identity?
Or did he show up in person, dressed as the opposite gender?
If the latter, why didn’t the cathedral take the time to look into the matter further? In today’s toxic political climate, anything is possible—especially a woke trans coup to make the cathedral and the Catholic Church look bad.
Holding a funeral service for a trans person is not in itself a bad thing. A trans person is a son or daughter of God and should be afforded as much respect as any person, but holding a funeral to use that trans person’s life and death to score political points and to blaspheme Catholic saints is something else.
Cecilia Gentili, a declared atheist, was well known in New York’s trans community.
Born in Argentina as a male, he entered the U.S. as an illegal immigrant but officially sought asylum in 2012. By that time he had already adopted the name Cecilia.
“Trans people didn’t have any of the opportunities at one time [to make a living] except to be a sex worker,” he told a packed, appreciative audience last year at New York’s LGBT Community Center, where he received the Visibility Award.
Gentili credited the Center with turning his life around and freeing him from a life of homelessness, opioid addiction, and sex work.
He went on to become Director of Policy at GMHC, an AIDS-based organization, and the founder of Trans Equity Consulting, an organization supporting trans women of color. Gentili also landed a role in the TV series Pose as a character named Miss Orlando who advised clients on cosmetic surgery.
Gentili was also famous in the NYC bubble for solo shows like “The Knife Cuts Both Ways” and “Red Ink,” which was due to open this April.
When Gentili died suddenly on February 2 (the cause of death was kept secret and never published), New York Governor Kathy Hochul posted a picture of the two of them on Instagram and wrote: “As an artist and steadfast activist in the trans rights movement, she helped countless people find love, joy, and acceptance.”
But helping “countless people find love, joy and acceptance” does not equate with what happened in St. Patrick’s cathedral.
A thousand mourners packed St. Patrick’s (the cathedral holds 2400) while 4,000 Catholic protesters picketed outside. Videos of the funeral show political activists in halter tops, extravagant fur coats and wraps, outrageous wigs straight out of Andy Warhol or John Waters films, men (biological and trans) who refused to remove their hats (when I was in St. Patrick’s five years ago with a group of friends, I inadvertently forgot to remove my hat and was approached by a sexton who asked me, “Please remove it.”)
The presider, the Rev. Edward Dougherty, the former superior general of the Maryknoll fathers, was all smiles throughout the service and kept referring to Gentili with feminine pronouns and describing Gentili as “our sister.”
During the prayers for the faithful, a reader prayed to the Lord for “transgender rights” and “gender-affirming” health care.
One man in a hat, identified as Oscar Diaz, took to the pulpit and belted out, “This whore. This great whore. St. Cecilia, Mother of all Whores!”
Applause and shout-outs broke out as people stood up to give additional cheers.
Why wasn’t the service terminated at this point by one of the mindless clerics one sees (in the videos) walking about the altar, some of them piously holding their hands over their chest as if in solemn procession?
Where was Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the Dr. Phil of U.S. Cardinals whose sole aim in life seems to be to be well-loved by chic, woke New Yorkers?
Beside the casket was an icon of the deceased: a framed picture of Cecilia Gentili, head surrounded by a Byzantine-style halo.
When Father Dougherty, the Maryknoll priest (the Maryknoll religious Order is second to the Jesuits in terms of radical wokeism and liturgical abuse) read the Our Father aloud to the congregation, nobody in the cathedral joined in.
Instead, this congregation of activists kept silent because this service was not about God nor about the fate of Cecilia’s immortal soul, but a show of solidarity and power, a base political event where the traditional “Rest in Peace” was replaced by “Rest in Power.”
At the end of the service, a frenzied trans woman of color rushed past the casket and proceeded to pirouette down the center aisle—arms flapping like stork wings– in a show of hell-bent narcissism.
This was immediately following the conclusion of “Ave Maria,” which some in the congregation changed to “Ave Cecilia.”
Reaction to the cathedral scandal was swift.
The Catholic News Agency reported:
On Saturday, Father Enrique Salvo, the pastor of St. Patrick’s, said in a statement that Church officials shared in the “outrage over the scandalous behavior at a funeral here at St. Patrick’s Cathedral earlier this week. 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,” Salvo said.
The pastor stated that the scandal took place as Lent was beginning, a time that reminds us “how much we need the prayer, reparation, repentance, grace, and mercy to which this holy season invites us.”
Father Salvo also said that Timothy Cardinal Dolan had directed that a Mass of Reparation for the blasphemous funeral had been offered.
Meanwhile, there’s been no word about Father Dougherty, who seemed to be in his glory as he stood by and encouraged chants of “This great whore, Saint Cecilia!” echoed throughout the neo-Gothic structure.
I believe that Dolan knew and approved this desecration and only reacted because he was caught. He is one of many Catholic Bishops who lack supernatural faith and are cowards.
I’m starting to think that all tranny men are degenerate scumbags who want to shove their sexual dysphoria insanity down everybody else’s throats. I can’t think of a single one who doesn’t, not even Ru Paul, who’s an attention seeker.
The trans women just seem to be violent, Every time one is in the news it’s because they cursed out and challenged the world or committed vandalism, assault or murder.
There’s no surprise in this. Thinking one is a different sex than one was born is a sign of mental illness. They ALL suffer from that. That our society — or at least many in it, including our leaders and the media — are acquiescing to this bizarre nonsense is, well, beyond words. (Only a very tiny percentage of babies are actually born with “ambiguous” genitalia.)
I’m not sure about “degenerate scumbags”, but their behaviour certainly justifies the wide-held view that gender dysphoria is, in fact, a mental disorder. It is classified as such in the AMA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Trans people hate that and are trying to rewrite the manual to exclude it!).
This is why it is tragic that we (that includes the medical community) allow kids and teenagers to go through life-altering “gender affirming” care (an oxymoron) while completely ignoring the root cause of their confusion that could be treated with therapy.
I hated frilly pink dresses when I was 10-14 years old and was, by outward appearances, a “tomboy”. I had more male friends than female friends. It was a phase, like much everything else at that age, and I learned to embrace my femininity by the time I was 18. Today, they would have me whisked off to a gender clinic, given me puberty blockers and chopped off my breasts.
God is watching. He cannot countenance sin. Pray for these lost souls. Only Christ can save them.
I seriously doubt sexual dysphoria is a deadly sin and God punishes the mentally ill.
And the suicide rate among trans people is something like nine times higher than the general population. Happy people. these.
It is worse, they are demonic and ruled by Lucifer
Are you saying Lucifer is a tranny? That wouldn’t surprise me.
Christendom built the moral scaffolding of the West but the Atheistic Left need to destroy it and replace it with an alternative moral code and values . GERMINAL
Hello Banastre, This is a serious question that I hope you and all who are on this thread might think about. Is Christendom actually Christianity?
I ask because followers of Christ are famously – “sheep among wolves” – and are to be “no part” of the world. We are to stay out of the devious politics and cruel wars of the world. Whereas hasn’t Christendom been a powerful player in the world?
And do you know what Jesus himself said that the mark of his true followers would be?
He said be in the world but not of it.
Hello Vic and Kent – I am replying to both of you as you have kindly picked up on my point about Christians being no part of the world. And yes, indeed we have to be in the world to do the Kingdom preaching work – a work that is so urgent. So what did Jesus mean?
Well for one thing, given the Christian congregation consists of people from “every tribe and tongue and nation” and that we are to be united in love as the brothers and sisters we truly are, can we allow the devious politics of the world to divide us up and turn us on each other?
I am hoping to live on this lovely earth forever – to “inherit the earth”, as Jesus promised. I hope we all will. It will be more joyful than we can now imagine.
Sue:
At John 13:34 Jesus tells His disciples to: love each other as I have loved you.
He goes on to say: by doing so, they would prove to the world that they were His disciples.
I’m not sure where you read that Christians are to be “no part” of the world.
We are admonished to not be “of” the world, That is, we are not to “love” the world or its devious ways.
Rather, the Great Commission calls ALL Christians to go into the world and make disciples of the nations of the world. – Matthew 28:16-20
Christ said we were being sent out by Him: “as sheep among wolves” and that while we were out changing the world for Him, we were to be: “as wise as serpents and as harmless as Doves”. – Matthew 10:16-18
In the verse Jesus goes on to warn, yet again, that we Christians will encounter persecution as we continue to engage with the world.
Further, Jesus counseled that we believers are: “the light of the world” and therefore our good deeds should be shone for all the world to see so that everyone might praise our Heavenly Father. – Matthew 5:14-16
Therefore Sue, neither Jesus nor the Bible teaches isolationism for any Christian or group of Christians (the Church) and that would include the world of politics.
Hello Kent, and Vic. Yes, indeed, all Christians have an urgent commission to preach the word, urgently. We are to tell all who will listen about the Kingdom of God, the heavenly government, the one that will restore the link so fatally broken in Eden. Under its loving rule, the whole earth will become the paradise of peace it was always intended to be.
But Jesus also taught, and teaches us, to be “no part of the world” as he was. In prayer to his Father, Jesus said: “I request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth.”—John 17:15-17.
So while we do not withdraw from the world, into monasteries or convents or communes, don’t we have to be no part of the world as Jesus was?
Sue:
Thank you for your reply to me.
I believe we are both in agreement about evangelizing the world for Christ.
You seem to also agree that we must guard our heart, from the ungodly temptations of this world, so that we might remain as both salt and light in the world, to the glory of our Father in Heaven.
Your friend in Christ,
Kent
Sad but not surprising.
To suggest that transvestites cannot get ordinary jobs is ludicrous too, all they need to do is behave and stop their narcissistic behaviour in public.
How can they ‘behave’ when they disfigure themselves with all kind of grotesque outfits/make-up? It’s already difficult to hide your disgust when you feel queasy at the sight of a cashier, hairstylist, salesperson.. whoever with rings piercing their noses/navels/eyebrows or toes. If additionally they are grotesquely made up, clothed and hair dyed in green, trying to pass for what they aren’t, sorry, but I give up. I don’t see why I should force myself to endure the sight.
To get ordinary jobs amid ordinary people, you must present yourself as one of them; you don’t expect that your customers or colleagues will hide their disgust at your appearance.
Now that anti-Christ perversions are open and assaulting Christendom, it the best time ever in my 54 years of being a Christian to be one. Nothing filters/strengthens a man’s faith as being tested does. “A faith untried is not a faith worth having.”
The weaker or false elements plaguing Christianity (inside and out) will be purged by the pressures of reprobate, half repentant, pop religious, and otherwise unhealthy expressions of Jesus purpose in coming.
Illustration: “Jesus Gets You”….no, Jesus calls us to repentance away from sin and toward faith in Him as Redeemer. “Jesus Gets You’ is a lie telling people they are just fine like they are. Jesus life and work are God’s answer to mankind’s problem of spiritual death and the sin expressing that death. Jesus said, “Except you repent, you shall all likewise perish!”
Well said.
My first reaction when I read of this story was: Why, in the first place, is an atheist wanting a funeral in a Christian church? And why is a Christian church allowing it? He was “a Catholic”? What a joke. If the trans activist who died was brought up a Catholic he clearly rejected whatever faith he had years ago.
The “trans” people celebrating the “whoredom” of their fellow slave of Satan are reprobates, let’s be honest, and will get (frpm, God) what they deserve if they don’t repent. But presumably the Archbishop and the priests at St. Patricks are not (One would hope that’s the case, anyway, though one does wonder about Father Dougherty, the Maryknoll priest who was happily going along with this and calling it “wonderful.”.)
The clergy responsible for this at St. Patrick’s have a lot to answer for, including, and foremost, to God.
Pray for the roman catholic church. They appear to be led by an imposter
Led by Marxist Liberation Theologist. An ideology imported from Latin America.
And introduced to Latin America by the subversive KGB in an attempt to make Christianity seem communist.
I wonder how many of the people attending this farce of a funeral are collecting welfare. I cannot imagine any of them holding down jobs.
Not unless being a street walker is a job.
The love of Jesus was conditional, as in, “Go forth and sin no more”.
Something was wrong here. You don’t just ‘book’ a catholic religious rite like baptism, marriage ceremony or funeral service as you’d book seats to an artistic performance. Unless you are a member of the congregation, you have to present your ‘credentials’, e.g. a baptism certificate of the deceased, then you’d meet with the priest to explain the circumstances and discuss the whole matter in all its details before arrangements can be made for the celebration of a funeral mass. That’s the way it goes in any church I ever went to, both sides of the Atlantic.
My guess is that ‘accomplices’ of the LGBTQ/whatever within St Patrick thought they were entitled to overrule the Bible principles, e.g. Leviticus 18.22 “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; IT IS an abomination.” Not even the Pope is entitled to amend the basic principles of the Church.
As to Ceyenne Doroshow & Cie, what else can you expect from these ridiculous people?
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My thoughts too. I haven’t heard a word from Father Doughterty – that could be because he was ordererd to shut it by Dolan. More to the point i have read nothing about denouncing – and denouncing is something that Christ did, especially when he denounced money changers in the temple.
So just a small correction: These people are not a “son or daughter of God”, rather, they are more akin to the pharisees that Jesus referred to being of “their father, the devil”. While all men and women are created in the image of God due to the fact that we have a common ancestor in Adam, these monsters who live their lives in open rebellion to natural law and take pride in defiling their bodies are not “sons and daughters of God”.
Something troubles me very much here. If the trans/LGBT community is after acceptance, where did they get the idea that mocking a people’s faith, and shaming their saint, in their cathedral, by hoodwinking someone in charge, is going to make the population at large more accepting of them? If anything, they have confirmed the cliche that they are not only deranged upstairs but are dangerous as well. Seems to me this lesson should have been learned back in 1989 when ActUp’s Stop The Church desecration (again in St. Patricks Cathedral) was met with so much outrage. Or do these people care?