DignityUSA Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke speaks out in Gay City News on the controversy surrounding the funeral of Cecilia Gentili at St. Patrick's Cathedral:
Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignityUSA, which represents LGBTQ Catholics, disagreed with the church’s response and voiced skepticism about the archdiocese’s claims.
“I don’t know how the archdiocese’s staff could have been so ignorant about Cecilia when the request was made,” Duddy-Burke told Gay City News in an interview on Feb. 19. “Our church should be offering hospitality to anyone — it is as simple as that. Condemning people for what they do in grief and how they tell the truth of a life is just wrong.”
Duddy-Burke described Gentili as an individual who used her status in New York’s community to “do good for others at the margins” and that she “modeled what Christian service was about, even if she didn’t claim the title Christian.”
“To take the step of publicly condemning the funeral just seems unwise, unchristian, and uncharitable,” she said.
Full story can be found: https://gaycitynews.com/archdiocese-new-york-criticizes-cecilia-gentili…
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