Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki recently wrote in these pages that the Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to grant a lifetime achievement award to Sen. Dick Durbin is “gravely mistaken” because the senator “has dedicated himself to creating, preserving, and expanding a legal right to abortion—that is, a legal right to kill an innocent human being in the womb.”
Chicago archbishop Blase Cardinal Cupich defended the award, saying it is being given to “recognize all the critically important contributions Senator Durbin has taken to advance Catholic social teaching in the areas of immigration, the care of the poor, Laudato Si’, and world peace.”
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