On September 30, Senator Dick Durbin announced that he is declining a “Lifetime Achievement Award” offered to him by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The heated controversy surrounding the episode illustrates two related crises in American Catholic public life.
The first is that so-called cafeteria Catholics can be found at either end of the spectrum of moral doctrines. The second is that our moral lives and positions are more likely to be formed by American political commitments than by the entirety of Catholic moral theology.
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