Restoration of Assumption Cathedral in Paraguay: A Monument to Conciliar Collaboration Between State and Neo-Church
EWTN News reports that Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has announced a government-led project to restore and enhance the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Asunción. The project, developed by the Catholic University of Paraguay and financed by the Itaipú hydroelectric entity, was presented during a ceremony attended by Cardinal Adalberto Martínez and the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Vincenzo Turturro. Peña emphasized that the restoration is not merely an infrastructure project but a “tangible expression” of the government’s conviction that “the Catholic Church is not merely part of our history, but part of what we aspire to be as a nation.” This initiative forms part of a broader pattern of state-funded restoration of emblematic religious sites in Paraguay, including the Ñandejára Guasu shrine in Piribebuy and St. Blaise Cathedral in Ciudad del Este.




