A disastrous decision by the wife of New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio not to erect a statue of Mother Cabrini in the city, in spite of the saint receiving the most votes in the city-wide “She Built NYC” contest, was overturned by Governor Andrew Cuomo this week who promised to fund the erection of a statue in her honor.
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New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray’s is undergoing intense criticism after deciding to snub Saint Frances Cabrini who won a citywide poll of candidates for the “She Built NYC” statue program. The city opted to honor other women instead, such as a black jazz singer, an LGBTQ advocate and a Latina desegregation activist.
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Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is reaping praise from across the country for a hard-hitting
column published in his diocesan newspaper in which he calls the president's advocacy of abortion "shameful" and says those who voted for him "bear the responsibility for a step deeper into the culture of death."
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