New York’s Odd Couple: A Muslim Democratic Socialist Mayor and Pope Leo XIV’s New Archbishop

What Mayor Mamdani and Archbishop Hicks share turns out to matter more than what divides them.

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At the Puerto Rican Day Parade this past Sunday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani handed Archbishop Ronald Hicks a New York Knicks jersey. Hicks took it, grinned, and st…