City Council Speaker Chris Quinn, a lib eral, openly gay Catholic, and Bill Do nohue, the conservative head of the Catholic League, are not natural allies.
But they agree when it comes to Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin’s shameful refusal to illuminate the edifice in blue and white on Aug. 26 to commemorate Mother Teresa’s centenary.
The building has honored NASCAR, Mariah Carey and the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Malkin says there’s a policy against honoring “individual religious figures.” But the building has honored John Cardinal O’Connor and Pope John Paul II — and every year notes the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
It should be enough that the region is home to four of the largest Catholic dioceses in the country.
Beyond that, Mother Teresa, the “Angel of Calcutta,” opened the first US chapter of her Missionaries of Charity order in the South Bronx and founded the first AIDS hospice in Greenwich Village.
Getting Quinn and Donohue on the same page is a minor miracle.
Malkin should beware the workings of a higher power — and give Mother Teresa her due.