St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. / Richard Trois via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2024 / 13:56 pm (CNA). The pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City says the church has offered a Mass of Reparation after a controversial irreverent funeral service was held there this week for a well-known transgender advocate. The Manhattan cathedral hosted the Feb. 15 funeral service for Cecilia Gentili, an activist who helped to decriminalize sex work in New York, lobbied for “gender identity” to be added as a protected class to the st...