Vincent J. Cannato

Oct 16, 2024 | city-journal.org | Vincent J. Cannato

Kamala Harris made news recently when she turned down Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s invitation to appear at the annual Al Smith Dinner, which will be held on October 17 at the New York Hilton in Manhattan. Some say that Harris’s move was a slight against Catholics and a sign of her insecurity about how she would be received or about her ability to deliver a good-natured speech.

Sep 21, 2024 | brownpelicanla.com | Vincent J. Cannato

Growing up in the New York metro area in the 1970s and early 1980s, the work of art I heard my parents discuss most often was Michelangelo’s Pietà. The famous sculpture, which resides inside St. Peter’s in Rome, features a beatific and serene Mary seated with the body of the crucified Jesus sprawled across her lap, evoking the great suffering of his death. The sculptor was able to draw out from the marble the intense emotions of pity and sorrow of a mother who has just lost her child.

Sep 21, 2024 | thecatholicthing.org | Vincent J. Cannato

Growing up in the New York metro area in the 1970s and early 1980s, the work of art I heard my parents discuss most often was Michelangelo’s Pietà. The famous sculpture, which resides inside St. Peter’s in Rome, features a beatific and serene Mary seated with the body of the crucified Jesus sprawled across her lap, evoking the great suffering of his death. The sculptor was able to draw out from the marble the intense emotions of pity and sorrow of a mother who has just lost her child.

May 26, 2024 | freebeacon.com | Vincent J. Cannato

These days, few Americans know the name La Guardia beyond the moniker for New York City’s second airport. Yet Fiorello La Guardia, who served three terms as mayor of New York in the 1930s and ’40s, is widely considered to be one of the city’s greatest—if not the greatest—mayor of all time.

May 14, 2024 | commentary.org | Vincent J. Cannato |Matthew Continetti

Earlier this year, the Citizens Budget Commission released a poll on how New Yorkers feel about their city. Half of those surveyed said they planned to leave in the coming years. Fewer than 30 percent rated their quality of life in the city as good or excellent, down from 51 percent 15 years earlier. In 2008, 86 percent of New Yorkers felt safe riding the subways during the day; that figure has plunged to 49 percent. Unhappiness with life in the city was most stark in its poorest neighborhoods.