‘Sacreligious’ LGBT Funeral Leads to St. Patrick’s Cathedral Holding Reparation Mass

For three days from Feb. 24 until Feb. 26, approximately 200 Catholics gathered outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to pray the rosary in reparation for an “LGBT pride” funeral that took place there a week and a half earlier. The prayer rallies were organized in conjunction with one of two petitions that called upon New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan to take firm action against those who allowed the “sacrilege”—celebrating things that the Catholic church considers to be “seriously immoral”—that have gathered tens of thousands of signatures. The Feb. 15 funeral was for “gender-confused” man Cecilia Gentili. Before it began, a picture of him dressed as a woman, with a halo around his head and inscribed with words including “transvestite,” “blessed,” and “mother” was placed near the sanctuary and surrounded with flowers as though in veneration of a saint....