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A GAY SAT? L.G.B.T. GROUPS ARE PHG FOR 9/11 HERO FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE’S NONIZATN

Distctly Catholic: I hope Fr. Judge's sathood e prospers. Not bee he was gay, but bee he was a selfls prit who died brgg the nsolatn of Christ on 9/11. * fr mychal judge gay *

And AIDS support anizatns when an unual illtratn the back pag of a gay weekly ught his eye: a pictn of St.

And AIDS wrought havoc on the cy’s gay populatn. A young Ju prit, William Hart McNichols, held healg Mass for people wh AIDS, and the gay and lbian Catholic anizatn Digny helped nnect volunteers to people need of support.

SUPPORTERS PH FOR GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11 TO BE MA A SAT

Two gay men, Mark Bgham and the Rev. Mychal Judge, are remembered as hero for their acts on Sept. 11, 2001. * fr mychal judge gay *

But Father Judge’s volvement the Francisn mistry helped brg attentn to the overwhelmg need and to the hurt and anger gay New Yorkers felt toward some church lears.

REMEMBERG FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE, THE GAY PRIT WHO PERISHED ON 9/11

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“At that time, there was a lot of nflict between the gay muny and the Catholic Church, ” Mr.

FOC ON MYCHAL JUDGE AS A 'GAY SAT' IS PROBLEMATIC

”Father Judge’s volvement the Francisn mistry helped brg attentn to the overwhelmg need and to the hurt and anger gay New Yorkers felt toward some church Father Judge had a way of listeng, he said, that ma people ultimately feel loved and rpected.

SAT OF 9/11: REMEMBERG FR. MYCHAL JUDGE AS A GAY PRIT

He was open about his own sexual orientan wh other gay Catholics, cludg those who helped wh the AIDS mistry. In 1993, Father Judge marched the cy’s gay pri para. “I thk the AIDS mistry kd of me about bee of his beg part of the gay muny and lovg the gay muny and really feelg like the church had kd of abandoned the gay muny.

COULD FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE BE THE FIRST GAY SAT?

”“I thk the AIDS mistry kd of me about bee of his beg part of the gay muny and lovg the gay muny and really feelg like the church had kd of abandoned the gay muny, ” said Mr.

NEW BGRAPHY DETAILS LIFE AND WNS OF GAY FRANCISN PRIT, FR. MYCHAL JUDGE

Sapienza beme creasgly disillned wh the Catholic Church over the treatment of gay people and trated when Catholic lears, cludg New York’s Cardal John O’Connor, unrmed public health mpaigns aimed at slowg the spread of H. “Mychal was gay, and I’m gay, and I kd of felt really pulled between the gay muny and the Catholic muny, ” Mr.

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”He soon cid he would not be able to acplish that goal and remaed awed by Father Judge’s abily to live fortably the church as a gay man while rpectg his vows of chasty. “I thk that would be very powerful for gay people of fah, gay Catholics pecially, to be able to say, ‘The church is nonizg this person that I n relate to, ’” he regardls of whether the nonizatn mov forward, he said, many people already believe that Father Judge is a sat.

"The fact that Judge was gay didn't bee wily known until after his ath, acrdg to New Ways. ""Mychal Judge shows that you n be gay and holy, " Jam Mart, a Ju prit who advot for greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church, told the Associated Prs. He joed the cy's fire partment a few iends knew Judge was gay.

The Catholic gay muny also claimed him, thkg 'Father Mychal is our guy, ' bee he was really able to nnect wh everybody.

FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE: BELOVED OUT GAY PRIT WAS FIRST RERD ATH OF 9/11 –

Clare’s Hospal, which opened the cy’s first AIDS ward, and vised hospals and AIDS patients and their fai, prid over funerals, and even unseled other gay Catholics. Judge ntued to be an advote for gay rights, marchg Pri paras, and after his ath, his iends revealed that Judge was gay and had been volved wh a Filipo nurse named Al Alvarado the last year of his life, which Judge rerd his diari. But Judge was fact a long-term member of Digny, a Catholic LGBT activist anizatn that advot for change the Catholic Church’s view of homosexualy.

But the Slate article foced on somethg else, suggtg that Judge might bee "the first gay sat. " I spect the long history of the church, and the fact that nonizatns were for many centuri handled by lol bishops, not the Vatin Curia, there were at least a few gay sats beforehand.

Nohels, I thk this foc on the fact that Judge was reportedly gay is problematic at several levels.

CHURCH ASKED TO NSIR SATHOOD FOR GAY 9/11 HERO MYCHAL JUDGE: ‘HEAVEN IS FILLED WH LGBT+ PEOPLE’

I don't thk is news to anyone that there are some the Vatin Curia who will nsir the fact that Judge was gay a negative factor evaluatg his e, not a posive. And there are others who would be prepared to see the mere fact of his beg gay as a matter of difference to his e, but who worry about the propaganda purpos to which his nonizatn would be put by people who have no love for the church or who ny the church's teachg on homosexualy.

Another ncern about the mpaign to create the "first gay sat" has to do wh Judge's privacy.

Acrdg to the Slate article, Judge chose to disclose the fact he was gay to very, very few people. I add passg that I fervently wish more people, gay and straight, chose to be as private as Judge was about his private life.

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New Bgraphy Details Life and Wns of Gay Francisn Prit, Fr. Mychal Judge - New Ways Mistry .

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