Growing up, Mayor Bill de Blasio was the only child on his block who did not attend Mass on Sundays. “Everyone else was at church, and I wasn’t,” he recalled in an interview last week. “Some of the kids envied me.”
His mother, a lapsed Catholic, had little interest in organized religion, and Mr. de Blasio inherited her skepticism. To this day, he belongs to no church, and prefers to call himself “spiritual” rather than religious.
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