New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) was slammed for allegedly once again showing Catholics in the Big Apple, “He wants nothing to do with them.”
Friday, Bishop Ronald Hicks was installed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral as the new archbishop of the New York Archdiocese, replacing retired Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Notably absent from the Installation Mass, which featured numerous leaders from outside the Christian faith, the Quran-quoting Mamdani claimed a scheduling conflict.
The Muslim radical who had no problem embracing an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, on the campaign trail, only offered a statement to mark the apostolic succession at one of the largest archdioceses in the United States.
Taking to X around the time the Mass was drawing to a close, the mayor posted, “Congratulations to Archbishop Ronald Hicks on today’s installment and welcome to New York City. I know that Archbishop Hicks and I share a deep and abiding commitment to the dignity of every human being and I look forward to working together to create a more just and compassionate city where every New Yorker can thrive.”
Congratulations to Archbishop Ronald Hicks on today’s installment and welcome to New York City.
I know that Archbishop Hicks and I share a deep and abiding commitment to the dignity of every human being and look forward to working together to create a more just and…
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) February 6, 2026
The New York Post reported that Mamdani’s office claimed there had been a scheduling conflict preventing him from attending the 2 p.m. Mass. Instead, Hizzoner was said to have dispatched a Catholic deputy mayor to attend.
Meanwhile, making note that a third of New Yorkers are Catholic, “making them the largest faith community in the city,” the Catholic League released a statement slamming the mayor’s repeated slights against the Church and its parishioners.
“Mamdani has been in office for just over a month, and already he is signaling to Catholics that they are not welcome,” Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote. “Mamdani’s professed interest in diversity and inclusion obviously hits a brick wall when it comes to Catholics. He wants nothing to do with them.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s professed interest in diversity and inclusion obviously hits a brick wall when it comes to Catholics. He wants nothing to do with them.https://t.co/HIx8L8UNty pic.twitter.com/P2u2v9555D
— Catholic League (@CatholicLeague) February 10, 2026
“The mayor of New York City traditionally attends the installation of the new archbishop of New York, but Mamdani–who was invited–ghosted the event,” stated Donohue. “The installation began a few hours after the Interfaith Breakfast at the New York Public Library; it is a short walk up Fifth Avenue to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He could easily have been there. Instead, he attended business as usual.”
Around the same time that Hicks had proceeded out of the cathedral after the Mass concluded, Mamdani began a press conference about the city’s weather forecast for the weekend.
The Catholic League also called out Mamdani’s “rabid support for abortion, gay marriage and transgenderism” as another signal that “he wants nothing to do with Catholics.”
As it happened, the interfaith breakfast, which Donohue stated had no Catholic priest present for representation, was where the Islamunist (Islamist communist) mayor cited the Quran to promote a message of “migration.”
“If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources,” said Mamdani. “Let’s create a new expectation of City Hall where power is wielded to love, to embrace, and protect. We will stand with the stranger today.”
Worth noting, while mayors dating as far back as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (R) in 1939 have attended the Installation Mass, with then-Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s former advisor Bill Cunningham suggesting the absence was a “missed opportunity,” Hicks delivered a similar message to that of Mamdani’s.
The archbishop opted to open his first homily leading the faithful of Gotham by speaking in Spanish as he delivered lyrics from the song, “Alma misionera,” to promote his message of being a missionary church.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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