installed<\/a> as archbishop in February after decades of work in Illinois. And on Sunday, he said he was among the many New Yorkers swept up in the Knicks’ championship run. During Mass, he showed the congregation a No. 11 Knicks jersey.<\/p>\n“Even though I’m new to New York, I caught the Knicks fever. I caught the Knicks’ passion,” Hicks said. “And last night, as the 11th archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, I sat with my number 11 jersey on. I watched every minute until victory.”<\/p>\n
The number carried a double meaning, as Hicks is the 11th archbishop of New York and No. 11 is worn by Knicks star and NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson.<\/p>\n
Hicks then turned his attention to the FIFA World Cup, pulling out a FIFA shirt and praising sports as a force that can bring people together.<\/p>\n
“The wonderful thing about FIFA being here is that sports can unite us,” Hicks said. “Even though you root for a different team, you can all come together in the one passion of following it.”<\/p>\n
For his final prop, Hicks pulled out a traditional Puerto Rican pava hat before addressing the congregation in Spanish and telling worshippers he planned to attend the Puerto Rican Day Parade after Mass.<\/p>\n
Later Sunday, he was photographed greeting Mayor Zohran Mamdani while wearing the hat at the parade.<\/p>\n
The remarks came during an unusually busy weekend for the region, which included the city’s Puerto Rican Day Parade, Pride celebrations and the first FIFA World Cup match at MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was ever any doubt about whether Archbishop Ronald Hicks was settling into life in New York,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-267975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}