Mamdani takes heat over skipping decades-long tradition of attending Catholic archbishop installation ceremony

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing backlash after he decided to skip Friday's investiture of the new Catholic archbishop of the city, Ronald Hicks, at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

In a Friday editorial from the New York Daily News, the outlet tore into Mamdani for failing to attend the new archbishop's installation ceremony, becoming the first city mayor to do so in several decades.

"Mayor Mamdani was wrong and frankly rude to skip Friday’s investiture of the new Catholic archbishop of New York, Ronald Hicks.