{"id":839,"date":"2003-01-18T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T04:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/01\/18\/839.html"},"modified":"2003-01-18T20:44:58","modified_gmt":"2003-01-19T04:44:58","slug":"fr-mychal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/01\/18\/fr-mychal-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Mychal Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I hadn't previously heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintmychal.com\/life01.htm\">Mychal Judge<\/a>, a fire-department chaplain in NYC who died at the WTC on 9\/11.  A member of AA, widely beloved, and, though not publicly, gay.  And now there's apparently a movement to try to get him canonized.  The site I pointed to is probably a bit biased, since it appears to be at the forefront of the canonization movement, but even with a grain of salt it's still an interesting story.  (No miracles reported yet, though.)  But maybe y'all knew about him already; I imagine his story was widely reported in the days after 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>I find it particularly interesting that he chose to work within the system by remaining closeted (except to a few friends), rather than to publicly come out and possibly lose his position.  I suppose it could be argued that keeping something secret that would get you removed from your position isn't the best way to operate, even if it's done for good reasons; on the other hand, I think there's value in working for change both from within a system and from outside it, and if the only way to continue to work within the system is to hide something, I can't fault that too much.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, though, I suspect the Church isn't gonna be too happy about the idea of turning a known homosexual into a saint.  Alas.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t previously heard about Mychal Judge, a fire-department chaplain in NYC who died at the WTC on 9\/11. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}