The dinner is named after the first Catholic presidential candidate, Al Smith, who served as the 42nd governor of New York and ran for president as a Democrat in 1928. This year's dinner will be ...

the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for skipping out on Thursday’s Al Smith Dinner — saying she was sending “one of those Zooms” instead.

Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City ... millions of dollars to support nonprofit Catholic organizations in the Archdiocese of New York. Established by Francis Cardinal Spellman ...

The dinner, first held in 1946, is named for Smith, a four-time governor of New York and the first Catholic to win a major party’s nomination for president. In 2020, Trump and Biden attended the ...

The annual dinner is named for four-time New York Gov. Al Smith, who was the first Catholic presidential nominee ... which featured a copy of the formal dais invitation naming the featured speakers.

Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend next month’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York City ... The historic Catholic fundraiser traditionally features light roasts by the two major ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York ... dinner this year. For the past four decades, nominees from the two major political parties have headlined the lively and often humorous Catholic ...

L ast year’s Al Smith dinner raised a record $7 million to fund Catholic schools for needy inner-city New York children, plus pediatric healthcare, among many worthy charities that benefit from ...

to make self-deprecating jokes while courting the Roman Catholic vote. In 1970s New York, the era in which Mr. Trump came up, the dinner was one of the glitziest events on the social calendar ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is courting the youth vote at several stops in Wisconsin, and former President Donald Trump is attending a Catholic charity dinner in New York with a historic past.

Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a decades-old annual event in New York City, is typically an ... in which money is raised for Catholic charities, has customarily marked the last time both ...