{"id":25420,"date":"2010-03-17T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/old-st-patricks-cathedral-named-a-basilica\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:09:17","slug":"old-st-patricks-cathedral-named-a-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/old-st-patricks-cathedral-named-a-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"Old St Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral named a basilica by Benedict XVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Old%20St%20Patrick%27s%20Basilica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Old St Patrick's Basilica.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Old St Patrick's Basilica-thumb-300x228-5994.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><b>Great news<\/b> for the Archdiocese of New York: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcathedral.org\/\">Old St Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral<\/a>&nbsp;(since 1809) has been a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Old St Patrick&#8217;s is the first church in the Archdiocese of New York to have the honor of being so connected with the Holy Father.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Congrats to Archbishop Dolan, Monsignor Donald Sakano!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You may recall recently <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2010\/02\/basilica-made-in-stamford-conn.html\">that I mentioned that the Bridgeport Diocese<\/a> had one of their churches raised to a minor basilica.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Take a look at the document on what it takes to be a minor basilica, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoremus.org\/DomusEcclesiae.html\">Domus Ecclesiae<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i>or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/liturgy\/current\/minorbasilica.shtml\">On Granting of the Title of Minor Basilica<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is terrific news on the Solemnity of Saint Patrick!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Blessed be God in His angels and in saints!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for the Archdiocese of New York: Old St Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral&nbsp;(since 1809) has been a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI. Old St Patrick&#8217;s is the first church in the Archdiocese of New York to have the honor of being so connected with the Holy Father. Congrats to Archbishop Dolan, Monsignor Donald Sakano! You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/old-st-patricks-cathedral-named-a-basilica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old St Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral named a basilica by Benedict XVI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[32101,1754,1978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}