I was shocked to learn that the Archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cardinal Cupich, plans to bestow a lifetime achievement award on Sen. Richard Durbin through the archdiocese’s office of human dignity and solidarity at their fundraiser on November 3 at St. Ignatius College Prep. Because this decision threatens to scandalize the faithful and injure the bonds of ecclesial communion, it should be reversed.
The Church teaches that abortion—the intentional killing of an unborn human being in the womb—is “intrinsically evil,” an action that is always and everywhere “incompatible with love of God and neighbor.” We must, as Pope John Paul II said in Evangelium Vitae, “have the courage to look the truth in the eye and to call things by their proper name.”
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