Film Screening of Cabrini

Join Campus Ministry, the Center for Religion and Culture, the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, and the Jesuit community at Fordham Rose Hill for a film screening of the movie Cabrini. The film depicts the life of a Catholic missionary sister from Italy named Francesca Cabrini, who encounters resistance to her charity efforts in NYC. Cabrini explores the sexism and anti-Italian bigotry faced by Mother Cabrini and other immigrants in the United States—and in the Catholic Church itself—in the late 19th and early 20th century. Mother Cabrini died in 1917, and in 1946, she was canonized, becoming the first American saint. In 1950, she was named the Patroness of Immigrants.