A petition asking the chief of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York to carry out an exorcism at St. Patrick's Cathedral following a funeral service for a trans-identified activist that many have condemned as sacrilege has obtained greater than 11,775 signatures.
LifePetitions, a venture of the pro-life web site LifeSite Information, launched a petition over the weekend calling on Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York to carry out an “exorcism and correction” at St. trans-identified activist and former prostitute Cecilia Gentili sparked outrage.
A letter to Dolan accompanying the petition states that “the sacrilegious burial of Cecilia Gentilia marked a shameful second within the lifetime of the Catholic Church in the USA, mocked as a grieving virgin martyr St. Cecilia, and desecrated the Cathedral of St. with sexual slurs and indecent dressing.”
Noting that “Jesus was crammed with zeal for the home of God when he drove the cash changers out of the temple with a whip,” the petition provides, “the least your eminence can do is to make amends and supply exorcistic prayers within the cathedral of St. lest this evil be met with lukewarm indifference.'
The petition elaborated on the assaults at St Patrick's Cathedral final Thursday.
“Catholic saints have been mocked and hailed as 'whores' throughout the sacrilegious funeral of a gender-confused Argentine atheist Thursday at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York,” the petition claims. Cecilia Gentili was praised as 'This whore. This nice whore. Saint Cecilia, Mom of All Whores!” at his funeral service, with The New York Occasions hailing the funeral as 'an occasion most likely unparalleled in Catholic historical past.'”
The so-called paper of report described Gentili as “well-known [his] advocacy on behalf of intercourse staff, transgender folks, and other people residing with HIV.” Whereas the petition emphasised the publication's characterization of the funeral as “exuberant political theater,” it expressed concern that the occasions that passed off final week at Manhattan's famed cathedral dishonored the legacy of the Catholic saint.
“The blasphemous reference to the true Saint Cecilia, who gave her life as a virgin martyr after refusing to resign the Catholic religion, was supported by a whole lot of LGBT activists,” the petition provides. “One in all Gentili's associates prayed to God for entry to 'gender-affirming well being care' throughout intercessions, whereas one other attendee modified the textual content of 'Ave Maria' to 'Ave Cecilia' and danced by the aisles.”
The petition additionally lamented that individuals dressed “with out regard for God's home” and that “Gentili's associates positioned a photograph of him with a halo and the Spanish phrases for 'transvestite', 'whore', 'blessed' and 'mom' close to the altar the place the Holy Mass is obtainable.” The clerk, the Reverend Edward Dougherty, was additionally singled out within the petition for remarking that “besides on Easter Sunday we don't actually have a crowd that seems that properly”.
The Archdiocese of New York mentioned it had already held a reparation Mass, in a press release launched over the weekend by the pastor of St. Patrick's Day, the Rev. Enrique Salvo, who introduced: “On the cardinal's instruction, we supplied an appropriate substitute mass.”
Salvo insisted that “The cathedral solely knew that household and associates have been asking for a funeral mass for a Catholic and had no concept that our welcome and prayer could be debased in such a sacrilegious and deceitful approach”.
In keeping with the Code of Canon Legislation of the Roman Catholic Church, “Sacred locations are disturbed by acts of grave damage that are dedicated on them with outrage to the devoted, acts which, within the judgment of the native strange, are so grave and opposite to the sanctity of it.” as a substitute of not being allowed to worship in them till the harm is repaired by a penitential ceremony in response to the norm of the liturgical books.
A separate passage within the Code of Canon Legislation lists “manifest sinners” whose burials would trigger “public scandal to the devoted” as those that “should be disadvantaged of ecclesiastical burials” until they “confirmed some signal of repentance earlier than dying”.
In a press release to The Occasions, the organizer of Gentili's funeral admitted that he had stored the background of the just lately deceased “underneath wraps” to make sure the archdiocese held the funeral at St. Patrick. The organizer, Cayenne Dorshow, described the home of worship as “an icon,” as did Gentili.
In response to the archdiocese's condemnation of the funeral over the weekend, Gentili's household cited Salvo's assertion for instance of “anti-trans hypocrisy and hate.”
The household claimed that Gentili's “coronary heart and fingers went out to those that proceed to belittle, oppress and punish within the Church of Saints,” including: “The one deception current in St. Patrick's Cathedral is that it claims to be a welcoming place for all.” ”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Submit. He will be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
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