The Scandalous Case of Cardinal Cupich and Senator Durbin

Last week, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced that it will be honoring Senator Durbin with a
Senator Durbin is a long-time Democratic United States Senator from Illinois who served in leadership for his party and was a prominent voice on all the national issues, including his aggressive support for abortion rights and “same-sex marriage”. He also supported policies that violated the Church’s religious liberty while himself being a Catholic.
Senator Durbin was also a strong supporter of immigrants and immigration laws that shielded undocumented aliens from prosecution. It is this latter issue for which he is being honored by the archdiocese.
The event will be hosted by His Eminence, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago (and member of the important Dicastery for Bishops in Rome), and held at the Jesuit prep school, Saint Ignatius College Prep.
For those of us with some familiarity with Cardinal Cupich, it does not come as a surprise that he would honor Senator Durbin in …