interview<\/u><\/a> with EWTN, the retired archbishop of New York said Mamdani\u2019s absence from the Jan. 1 inauguration and from the Feb. 6 installation of Archbishop Ronald Hicks at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral broke with longstanding civic custom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was ticked off he didn\u2019t invite me to his inauguration,\u201d Cardinal Dolan said. \u201cMost of the time the archbishop of New York, among other religious leaders, gets invited.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that he was \u201creally ticked off\u201d that Mamdani did not attend Archbishop Hicks\u2019 installation. That too was a departure from precedent, Dolan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat defied precedent, the mayor not showing up to the installation,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the many things I love about New York is the amity among the different religions. We all get together. We all enjoy one another. The ecumenical and interfaith health of this city is phenomenal.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nYes he’s right – Mamdani dissing Catholics. Get used to it. Cardinal Dolan on Mayor Mamdani skipping Catholic events: \u2018I was ticked off\u2019 Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he was \u201cticked off\u201d that Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not invite him to his January inauguration or attend the installation Mass of the city\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-economics-and-politics","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15571,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions\/15571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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