Even Fr. James Martin, S.J., who initially praised the service (he did not attend) for a male-to-female transgender activist, now says, “some actions I’ve seen [on video] struck me as, while perhaps to the congregation joyful and celebratory, disrespectful of the sacred space that is St. Patrick’s Cathedral.” Perhaps it was two men kissing at the altar of referring to the deceased as a “great whore, St. Cecilia, the mother of all whores.”