Biden, Mamdani, and Hochul Join Archbishop Hicks’s 9/11 Mass After Trump and Vance Decline

The White House declined the invitation from Pope Leo XIV’s new archbishop of New York. I interviewed both Mamdani and Biden, who told me his health is doing well.

Archbishop Ronald Hicks delivers the homily at the 25th-anniversary 9/11 Memorial Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on Sept. 10, 2026. (Archdiocese of New York livestream)

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