The Cathedral in Popular Culture
- To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997), a Hugo Award-winning novel by Connie Willis, centres around an effort to rebuild the second cathedral in 2057.
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“Now, honestly: if a large group of ... demonstrators blocked the entrances to St. Patrick’s Cathedral every Sunday for years, making it impossible for worshipers to get inside the church without someone escorting them through screaming crowds, wouldn’t some judge rule that those protesters could keep protesting, but behind police lines and out of the doorways?”
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