Bishops ‘Grateful,’ ‘Relieved’ After Pro-Abortion Durbin Declines Catholic Award
Durbin’s withdrawal from the award came just hours after Pope Leo XIV addressed the controversy.
Durbin’s withdrawal from the award came just hours after Pope Leo XIV addressed the controversy.
Opposition to Cardinal Cupich’s plan is not dying down — neither in Illinois nor around the country.
Illinois and Indiana shepherds will join San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on the Advisory Board of Religious Leaders for the commission. Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron are serving on the commission itself.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, responded this week.
‘We are to care for, protect and welcome new life, as the Blessed Mother did for the Christ Child,’ the bishop urged the faithful ahead of the Illinois March for Life.
The vast crowd attests to the beauty of life.
“I think it’s very convenient to try to hide behind Pope Francis and say, ‘Well, if you disagree with me, you’re really disagreeing with Pope Francis,’” the Illinois bishop told the Register. “But I think the reality is contrary to that.”
In the wake of new restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass, two American bishops spoke with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo Thursday about how their dioceses have responded.
‘It is not uncommon today to hear Catholic leaders affirm unorthodox views that, not too long ago, would have been espoused only by heretics,’ wrote the Illinois bishop, who is chairman-elect of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance.
Following the apostolic nuncio’s Nov. 16 remarks, several U.S. bishops spoke with the Register about their vision and implementation of the Synod on Synodality.
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