Overview
- Reporters note Mamdani is the first sitting New York City mayor in decades, possibly ever, to miss an archbishop’s installation at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
- City Hall sent a Catholic deputy mayor to the ceremony, then facilitated contact as Mamdani and Archbishop Ronald Hicks met Tuesday at an NYPD event and spoke briefly by phone afterward.
- Editorial boards and commentators criticized the no‑show, with the New York Daily News calling it a snub and former Mayor Eric Adams publicly welcoming Hicks.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul, a prominent Catholic, also did not attend because she was at the state Democratic convention in Syracuse receiving her party’s nomination.
- Coverage links the episode to a broader reassessment of the Catholic Church’s civic influence in New York, citing abuse settlements, property sales, and declining attendance as context.