The film actually ends — climaxes no less — with a showdown between Cabrini and Mayor Gould. In an astonishing exchange that evidently is fictional, Mother Cabrini demands to see the mayor, gets into his office, and then politically threatens him like some seasoned, Machiavellian machine politician. Once Mayor Gould senses that this gal can play hardball, he smiles appreciatively, cynically, and offers the little Italian broad a glass of whiskey. Cabrini slugs it down. The saint then finishes with what serves as her final testimony in the movie, driveling a gulp of feminist gibberish about how no man could do what a woman could do.
Thus ends the film of this holy woman. It stops with a statement not about the power of Jesus, God, faith, but womanpower.
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