{"id":181838,"date":"2025-11-15T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/181838\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:59:10","slug":"dublin-finally-has-a-catholic-cathedral-but-why-has-it-taken-the-church-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/181838\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin finally has a Catholic cathedral \u2013 but why has it taken the church so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Move by Pope Leo is centuries in the making and offers insight into city\u2019s complex history\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Mary\u2019s Pro Cathedral. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0e2cb2e6-c0a7-45bd-a0e6-848b11a9048e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">St Mary\u2019s Pro Cathedral. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dublin is to finally get a Catholic cathedral \u2013 again. Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary\u2019s Pro Cathedral as the city\u2019s official Catholic cathedral. It is the first time since the Reformation that Dublin will have a Catholic cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The announcement was made on the feast day of Dublin\u2019s patron saint, Laurence O\u2019Toole, by Archbishop Dermot Farrell, exactly 200 years after St Mary\u2019s was dedicated on November 14, 1825, by Archbishop Daniel Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Move by Pope Leo is centuries in the making and offers insight into city\u2019s complex history St Mary\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2512,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,2513,2515,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-181838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catholic-church","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-pope-francis","23":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115553132457957968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}