Foc on Mychal Judge as a 'gay sat' is problematic | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• A GAY SAT? L.G.B.T. GROUPS ARE PHG FOR 9/11 HERO FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE’S NONIZATN
• SUPPORTERS PH FOR GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11 TO BE MA A SAT
• REMEMBERG FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE, THE GAY PRIT WHO PERISHED ON 9/11
• FOC ON MYCHAL JUDGE AS A 'GAY SAT' IS PROBLEMATIC
• SAT OF 9/11: REMEMBERG FR. MYCHAL JUDGE AS A GAY PRIT
• COULD FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE BE THE FIRST GAY SAT?
• NEW BGRAPHY DETAILS LIFE AND WNS OF GAY FRANCISN PRIT, FR. MYCHAL JUDGE
• WRG THE IN OF 9/11 - REMEMBERG FR MYCHAL JUDGE, THE FIRST GAY SAT? #ALLSATS
• FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE: BELOVED OUT GAY PRIT WAS FIRST RERD ATH OF 9/11 –
• CHURCH ASKED TO NSIR SATHOOD FOR GAY 9/11 HERO MYCHAL JUDGE: ‘HEAVEN IS FILLED WH LGBT+ PEOPLE’

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

He was open about his own sexual orientan wh other gay Catholics, cludg those who helped wh the AIDS mistry.

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

In 1993, Father Judge marched the cy’s gay pri para.

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

“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. ”“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. 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.

”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.

COULD FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE BE THE FIRST GAY SAT?

“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.

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

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. 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.

WRG THE IN OF 9/11 - REMEMBERG FR MYCHAL JUDGE, THE FIRST GAY SAT? #ALLSATS

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.