US EditionPaprocki Calls Out Chicago Archdiocese for Giving Sen. Durbin Lifetime Achievement Award
Catholic leaders oppose honoring Senator Durbin due to his pro-abortion record despite his immigrant advocacy, warning the award risks scandal and confuses Church teaching, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said.
- The Archdiocese of Chicago announced recently that Cardinal Blase Cupich will present Senator Dick Durbin a lifetime achievement award at the Keep Hope Alive benefit on November 3.
- Because Durbin has been barred from Communion in Springfield since 2004, Senator Dick Durbin’s voting record includes opposition to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
- Pro-Life leaders publicly warned the award contradicts Church teaching and betrays the faithful, Illinois Right to Life said, while Mary FioRito and former officials said it could confuse Church policy.
- Illinois Right to Life plans protests outside St. Ignatius College Prep, while Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield, Illinois, warned the award risks scandal and confuses the faithful.
- Archdiocese of Chicago policy handbook and USCCB guidance advise against honoring those opposing Church moral principles, while Cardinal Blase Cupich defended the award citing the 'consistent ethic' concept and Durbin's immigration work.
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How Sen. Durbin Shifted on Abortion - First Things
On January 17, 1982, a young and not-yet-elected Richard J. Durbin served as the master of ceremonies for the Springfield Right to Life committee’s annual March for Life event in Illinois’s capital city. Presumably, Durbin was being highlighted as the pro-life candidate in the local congressional race. His opponent was the incumbent—a pro-choice Republican. Durbin, a Catholic, was ultimately elected and served in the U.S. House of Representative…
Silent Shepherds, Forsaken Lambs - LewRockwell
For faithful Catholics, the news that yet another pro-abortion politician is being celebrated by the liberal-leaning ecclesial authorities of their own Church is discouraging. Their sorrow is not just because Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has decided to grant a “Lifetime Achievement Award” to 80-year-old Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)—a Catholic politician who has devoted his career to championing abortion access at every turn. It is also because of …
Silent Shepherds, Forsaken Lambs
For faithful Catholics, the news that yet another pro-abortion politician is being celebrated by the liberal-leaning ecclesial authorities of their own Church is discouraging. Their sorrow is not just because Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has decided to grant a “Lifetime Achievement Award” to 80-year-old Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)—a Catholic politician who has devoted his career to championing… Source
2 more bishops call on Cardinal Cupich to cancel award for pro-abortion senator
Two more Catholic bishops have joined the growing number of voices urging Cardinal Blase Cupich to rescind a planned Lifetime Achievement Award for pro-abortion Sen. Dick… The post 2 more bishops call on Cardinal Cupich to cancel award for pro-abortion senator appeared first on CatholicVote org.
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