"The New York mayor draws flack from the Catholic press, holds his own for now with the NYPD, and will have to twist arms in Albany. According to Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval approached Joseph Stalin with the suggestion that that making life easier for Catholics in the Soviet Union would be a good way of ingratiating himself with the Vatican. "The Pope?" Stalin replied, "How many divisions has he got?""
"Shifting from Deuteronomy 10, which commands us to "love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt," to the more apocalyptic language of the Book of Revelation, Mamdani condemned ICE in biblical terms: "They arrive as if atop a pale horse, and they leave a path of wreckage in their wake. People ripped from their cars. Guns drawn against the unarmed. Families torn apart.... If these are not attacks upon the stranger among us, what is?""
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presided over an Interfaith Breakfast that blended personal faith memories with forceful policy rhetoric. Mamdani recounted being raised Muslim with a Hindu mother and celebrating Eid and Diwali with family. He invoked Deuteronomy and Revelation to denounce ICE actions, describing raids as leaving a path of wreckage and tearing families apart. The event drew warm response for the sanctuary-city stance but also provoked criticism from Catholic organizations. The mayor currently maintains working relations with the NYPD while facing anticipated political resistance in Albany over his positions.
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