By Selwyn Duke

First she canceled her mother’s memorial Mass at the church. Now she aims to cancel the church’s priest. The issue?

Father Michael Panicali of New York City’s St. Mark’s parish expressed in a sermon that he would not take a COVID-19 gene-therapy agent (GTA, generally referred to as a “vaccine”) because of associated complications; he further stated, relating Catholic teaching, that creating any medication using, even remotely, a fetal-stem-cell line is a sin.

This didn’t sit well with Elizabeth (last name was not provided), who lost her mother, Helen Sylvester, on April 9, reportedly to coronavirus. In fact, while she wants to have a memorial Mass held for her mother, she can’t bring herself to have it at St. Mark’s even though her family calls the parish their “spiritual home,” as the Daily Beast puts it. “I’m supposed to go there and have him [Panicali] serve the Mass when my mother dies from the virus?” the site quotes her as saying.

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