A gay sat? L.G.B.T. groups are phg for 9/11 hero Father Mychal Judge’s nonizatn | Ameri Magaze

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• 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. 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.

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

“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. 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.

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

“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.

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

”“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.

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

”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. 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.

COULD FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE BE THE FIRST GAY SAT?

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. 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.

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

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.

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

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. But I do not wish this or believe this bee he was gay, but bee he was a lovg, joyful prit who brought the love and joy of Christ to so many and died brgg the nsolatn of Christ to those nontg the horrors of 9/11.

Judge, equently referred to as the “Sat of 9/11, ” was not only a chapla for the New York Fire Department and a beloved (and by) pastoral was a gay prit. “Back the early eighti, Judge was one of the first members of the clergy to mister to young gay men wh AIDS, dog their funeral Mass and nsolg their partners and fay members. Francis of Assisi Church when Digny, a gay Catholic anizatn, need a home for s AIDS mistry, and he later ran an AIDS program at St.

[In 1999], he marched the first gay-clive St. Patrick’s Day para, which his iend Brendan Fay, a gay activist, anized Queens. But he me out selectively to many people, cludg gay advot, New York Cy officials, and the Catholics to whom he mistered.

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

” Many of his brother Francisns were surprised when beme public after his ath that Judge was a gay man. An tobgraphy of the prit, wrten by Michael Ford, quot Judge as sayg, “Look at who we are as gay people at this moment history, beg a gift for the church, beg agents of change both church and society. Mychal Judge, a gay man who, his pritly mistry, shed to the margs and weled home the many people he served so many ways.

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

Gay men the prithood still have to al wh stctural homophobia, and disput about prits who have e out as gay are not equent. Judge’s life reveals how wrong is to reject or reprs gay prits.

His life is a wns to the broar tth that there are many gay prits who lead holy liv of humble service. When Salvatore Sapienza saw the small classified ad the back of OutWeek, a gay news magaze New York, he thought seemed like a sign. Sapienza was gay—he had been out for years—but he was also a Marist Brother, a Catholic office siar to the prithood.

New York Cy 1989 was not an easy place to be both gay and Catholic. The AIDS crisis would claim more than 5, 000 people the cy that year, and the church was volly opposed to ndoms and homosexualy. “Mychal really knew that gay Catholics were beg treated like send-class cizens by the church, ” Sapienza said.