St. Patrick's pastor claimed the church knew only it was hosting a service for a Catholic and that ... on social media, Gentili was celebrated as “Saint Cecilia, the mother of all whores.” ...

Transgender activist Cecilia Gentili poses for a photo ... of imagination regarding how the church might integrate queer culture and symbolism within a Catholic liturgy in a way that holds sacred ...

On Thursday, it hosted a jubilant funeral for Cecilia Gentili, a former sex worker ... in conflicts between gay activists and the Catholic Church, whose opposition to homosexuality and condom ...

Image Catholic liberals, including some parishioners at St. Patrick’s, said the church had done a ... remembered Ms. Gentili as “Saint Cecilia, the mother of all whores,” to the thunderous ...

“The Cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral Mass for a Catholic ... for Gentili, the irony of Mary Magdalene is also not lost in this. The church has ...

Catholic leaders say. The church claimed it was duped into hosting Thursday’s funeral for Cecilia Gentili, a Big Apple transgender activist who championed the rights of sex workers, AIDS ...

Cecilia Gentili was baptized in Argentina in 1972. This sacrament made her a child of God, and that fact alone enabled her to have her funeral in a Catholic church. As a transgender woman ...

"a deplorable desecration of America's most famous Catholic Church." Funeral organizer Ceyenne Doroshow claimed to The Washington Post that the cathedral never asked to clarify Gentili's gender ...

Gentili established a health care clinic COIN, which stands for Cecilia's Occupational Inclusion ... Advocates say even her service, held at a historic Catholic church, reflects the progress ...