Jane Fonda pops up at NYC’s annual animal blessing event — then chows down on some Harlem fried chicken

NY Post ^ | 10/19/25 | Cindy Adams

[Libloather]

This time it’s Jane’s jungle Earlier this month, NYC’s largest Gothic cathedral celebrated the annual feast day of St. Francis of Assisi and his ancient Blessing of the Animals.

For 11 years, until the pandemic, I hosted a similar animal’s holiday at St. John the Divine. We loved all — the young, babies, healthy, strays, police dogs, the sick, frail, old, rescues, a frog, fish in containers, turtles, horses outside, sheep, pigs, cows, camels, donkeys, chickens, goats.

Even a choir and a rabbi for the Jewish animals. Police rerouted traffic. I remember His Eminence Cardinal Dolan flat on the floor petting a Chihuahua — while a Great Dane awaited his turn.

We had prayers, choir, music, scripture, photographers, reporters, clean-up people. Approximately 2,000 New Yorkers and their furry, feathered, scaly family members.

Now at Amsterdam and 110th. Jane Fonda chatted with the Cathedral’s first-ever female dean. Fonda, after the Procession of the Animals, headed to Harlem for fried chicken and collard greens at Melba’s.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Excellent!!! ROTLF!

[xp38]

Thanks. We all have our troubles in life but losing material stuff is one of the least and in this instance nothing too valuable. Fixing the window and all the little glass bits in the vehicle was the worst part.

[SaveFerris]

Had similar happen to me a couple of years ago

Grrrr 😠😡😠😡 thieves 😡😠😡😠

[SaveFerris]

Hedy Lamarr has now entered the chat 💬💬💬

🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳

[null and void]

That’s Hedley!

[SaveFerris]

Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Scrambler Bob]

Did she bless her cat? . . . .

[metmom]

I have no idea.

[Elsie]

Am I barkin’ up the wrong tree?

[Elsie]

...voices that dared to claim that God sides with the...

HE sure does!

And HE calls them to REPENT! and leave their lives of SIN!

[Elsie]

Think - THINK!

[Elsie]

It's TWUE!

[jmacusa]

There’s at least two generations of Americans who have no idea who this woman is and one generation who knows damn well who she is.

[metmom]

Exactly.

I guess she’s only news for the aged out hippies who are keeping stuff like the No Kings movement alive. The left has got to have SOMETHING to motivate what’s left of their base with.

[Varda]

There’s nothing about blessing animals that makes eating some other animals wrong. Whoever wrote that headline is a moron along with the subject of the article.