{"id":84167,"date":"2026-07-06T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84167"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:01:18","slug":"for-missouri-cathedral-latin-saved-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/for-missouri-cathedral-latin-saved-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"For Missouri Cathedral, Latin Saved The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the London Mail\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/06\/17\/109831465-15956503-image-a-40_1783356915404.jpg\" alt=\"St Francis de Sales Oratory in St Louis, Missouri is one of roughly 450 Catholic churches in the US that\u00a0celebrates the traditional Latin Mass\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">St. Francis de Sales was closed by the Archdiocese of St Louis in June 2005, and the church was forced to merge with another local parish.\u00a0The cathedral was scheduled to be torn down and sold, but was saved that July when Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke made the church an Oratory where Mass is strictly administered in Latin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">St Francis de Sales is now one of about 450 churches across the country that regularly celebrate the traditional Latin Mass and is seemingly booming.\u00a0A typical Sunday will see more than 700 people fill the pews of the cathedral to partake in a nearly two-hour long service where almost no English is spoken, according to the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/article_47794532-6ffe-4b8f-866e-2abdd323cc73.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Mail\u00a0[caution tabloid]: St. Francis de Sales was closed by the Archdiocese of St Louis in June 2005,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}