Ach! The Pope.

"The Pope turns her down. But faced with her implacable will he offers another option to her: Go to Gilded Age New York City and care for the masses of poor, widely despised Italian immigrants who throng the city’s ramshackle slums.

And that’s precisely what Mother Cabrini does. The film is quite accurate in its depiction of the hostility these Italians faced, not just from native-born New York Protestants, but also from fellow Catholic Irish who’d arrived decades before them. No social services yet existed, the politicians were scornful, and predatory proto-Mafia criminals preyed on their own people. But Cabrini is undaunted, and her faith that “He who strengthens me” will make anything possible drives her to build, from almost nothing, a real “empire of hope,” a chain of charity hospitals, orphanages, schools, and other institutions to serve anyone in need which now stretches around the world—including Asia.

It’s a powerful story which does full justice to one of the greatest American women in history, one whose body is still miraculously incorrupt decades later and resides on the grounds of one of her high schools north of Manhattan. I like to imagine it sitting in a glass case in the gym, presiding over basketball games and student proms. I love being a Catholic."

~ John Zmirak

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-gorgeous-new-movie-cabrini-will-break-your-heart/