Catholic News Agency portal reports on November 21, 2025, that Antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) issued a decree designating St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the Dublin Archdiocese’s cathedral—formally ending its 200-year provisional status. “Archbishop” Dermot Farrell announced this during the building’s bicentenary Mass, framing it as part of the diocese’s mission of “Building Hope and Proclaiming Good News.” Auxiliary “Bishop” Paul Dempsey later emphasized that churches must be “places where the Church community gathers to worship the Lord,” while dismissing nostalgia for Ireland’s Catholic past as “rose-tinted glasses” obscuring unspecified “serious issues.” The article celebrates this as Dublin’s “first official Catholic cathedral since the Reformation,” ignoring the conciliar sect’s doctrinal bankruptcy.
Ecclesial Legitimacy in the Shadow of Apostasy
The decree’s theatrical presentation—“I am pleased to announce that the Holy Father, Pope Leo, has consented to my request”—presumes apostolic authority where none exists. The true Church recognizes no “pope” after Pius XII, for “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). By accepting Leo XIV’s decree, Farrell and Dempsey submit to a sect that denies Quas Primas (1925), which declared Christ’s Kingship over nations. Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken”—precisely Ireland’s fate under its neo-pagan regime.
St. Mary’s itself symbolizes conciliar decay. Its 1825 dedication followed penal law relaxations, not doctrinal vigor. Farrell’s celebration of 200 years of “exemplary service” ignores how this “provisional” cathedral tolerated Protestant usurpation of Christ Church and St. Patrick’s—a betrayal of Mortalium Animos (1928), which forbade equating Catholic worship with heretical sects. Dempsey’s claim that churches exist to “draw us into the mystery of God’s love” rings hollow when his sect replaces the Most Holy Sacrifice with community gatherings.
Nostalgia Versus True Catholic Identity
Dempsey’s dismissal of Ireland’s Catholic past exposes modernism’s hatred of tradition: “Nostalgia could be described as looking into the past with the pain taken away.” This echoes Bergoglio’s denigration of “backwardists.” Contrast this with Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning the claim that “the Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). The “bishop” reduces 150 years of Irish ecclesiastical architecture—churches “built in the middle of the 19th century symbolizing the strong presence of the Catholic Church”—to a failed experiment, asking: “Do we lament the past or seek hope-filled hearts?”
True Catholics lament not mere attendance declines but the conciliar sect’s surrender to secularism. Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum and 2025 leftist presidential election prove Dempsey’s “forward-looking” church enables national apostasy. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned modernist lies that “dogmas… are a certain interpretation of religious facts formulated by the human mind” (Proposition 22)—yet Farrell’s “Building Hope” mission reduces faith to social outreach, void of Thomistic clarity.
Sacramental Nullity Amidst Liturgical Desecration
The article’s reference to St. Laurence O’Toole’s feast day underscores the irony: a pre-1958 saint invoked to legitimize invalid sacraments. Since Paul VI’s 1968 Pontificalis Romani, ordinations lack proper form, rendering “bishops” like Farrell and Dempsey laymen. Thus, their Masses—presumably Novus Ordo—are sacrilegious simulations. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) established immutable rites; abandoning them voids Holy Orders. Dublin’s Catholics kneel not before Christ but a Masonic table of assembly.
Even if St. Mary’s housed valid priests, its designation as a cathedral is meaningless without communion to Rome’s true Successor. As the Syllabus declares, “The Church is a true and perfect society… endowed with perpetual rights conferred by her Divine Founder” (Error 19). The conciliar sect, denying extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and promoting religious indifferentism (Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae), cannot claim jurisdiction. Dublin’s faithful are sheep without shepherds, deceived by wolves in mitres.
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Joy in Dublin as papal designation gives city first Catholic cathedral since Reformation (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025