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Opposition to Cardinal Cupich’s plan is not dying down — neither in Illinois nor around the country.
The meetings of two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders chaired by Cardinal Blase Cupich were postponed indefinitely last week after a lay leader requested that the Chicago cardinal-archbishop’s controversial decision to honor a pro-abortion-rights senator be discussed.
John Breen, a board member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI), asked on Sept. 23 that Cardinal Cupich’s plan to give Sen. Dick Durbin a “lifetime achievement award” at an upcoming archdiocesan fundraiser be added to the agenda of a Sept. 25 board meeting because the honor risked undermining the group’s advocacy work.
“All of our work is premised upon the dignity of the human person,” said Breen, a law professor at Loyola University Chicago and the Diocese of Joliet’s lay representative on the CCI board. “And yet you’re going to honor a man who denies the dignity of a whole class of persons? It makes no sense. So, I don’t see why we, as a body, wouldn’t address the issue.”
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The meetings of two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders chaired by Cardinal Blase Cupich were postponed indefinitely last week after a lay leader requested that the Chicago cardinal-archbishop’s controversial decision to honor a pro-abortion-rights senator be discussed.
John Breen, a board member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI), asked on Sept. 23 that Cardinal Cupich’s plan to give Sen. Dick Durbin a “lifetime achievement award” at an upcoming archdiocesan fundraiser be added to the agenda of a Sept. 25 board meeting because the honor risked undermining the group’s advocacy work.
“All of our work is premised upon the dignity of the human person,” said Breen, a law professor at Loyola University Chicago and the Diocese of Joliet’s lay representative on the CCI board. “And yet you’re going to honor a man who denies the dignity of a whole class of persons? It makes no sense. So, I don’t see why we, as a body, wouldn’t address the issue.”
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Cardinal Cupich Meetings With Illinois Catholic Leaders Canceled Amid Durbin Award Controversy
Opposition to Cardinal Cupich’s plan is not dying down — neither in Illinois nor around the country.
