Dear Editor: Off the top of my head I can think of only one other New York woman of note whose life made as much of a difference to the city as did that of Mother Cabrini and that is Elizabeth Ann Seaton. There are others, for sure, like Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Day. But to by-pass Mother Cabrini for whom a hospital has been named as well as streets and a housing project is to overlook the obvious.

Or maybe it’s not. Maybe it is something, God forbid, more intentional. And if that is the case, then the mayor’s wife should be aware of her own limitations and be humble enough to admit and overcome them.

Father Michael Perry

Flatbush/Ditmas Park 

Editor’s note: Father Perry is the pastor emeritus of Our Lady of Refuge parish.