Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life
ROME (AP) – Pope Leo XIV intervened for the first time abortion dispute The US travels around the Catholic Church and raises the contradiction of what it really means to be “pro -life”.
Leo, a Chicago native, was asked to give a lifetime achievement award for Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich Dick Durbin, the Illinois senator, to help immigrants. Considering the support of the powerful democratic senator to abortion rights, the plans objected to some conservative US bishops.
Leo first of all sought to respect both sides, but also stated the contradiction that appears in such discussions.
Leo, “I am against abortion, but someone who says I’m in favor of the death penalty ‘someone who says,” he said. “’I am against abortion, but I agree with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if this is pro -life.”
Leo spoke hours before Cupich said Durbin rejected the award.
Church teaching prohibits abortion, but is also against the death penalty. In 2018, Pope Francis officially changed the church teaching and decided that the death penalty was “unacceptable” under all circumstances. The US bishops and the Vatican strongly called for the humanity of immigrants by showing the Bible command for “welcome to the foreigner”.
Leo said it was not familiar with the details of the dispute on the doss prize, but it was important to look at the general record of the senator and recorded the Durbin’s four -year term. Answering an English question from US publisher Ewtn News, he said there were many ethical problems that make up the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Orum I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them, but first of all, I will ask each other more and more, and both as human beings, and in this case we searched together as citizens of the Illinois state, and the Catholics are very close to all these issues and to find out very clearly on these issues.
Cupich was a consultant close to Pope Francis, who opposed abortion, but also criticized the politicization of abortion debates by US bishops. Some bishops called on the Catholic politicians who support the rights of abortion, including former president Joe Biden, to deny the community.
He met with Biden Francis several times and said that in 2021 he told journalists Francis to continue to take the congregation. When he visited Rome that year, he took the sanctity during Mass in a church at Francis’s bishop.
Durbin was banned from taking a congregation at the bishop of Springfield in 2004. Springfield Bishop Thomas PAPROCKKI continued to ban and Cupich’s senator was one of the US bishops who strongly objected to the honoring decision. Cupich claims Durbin as a member of the Chicago Archbishopus, where Durbin is a house.
Durbin’s statement that he would reject the prize Cupich, the US polarization in the US Catholics “themselves politically found themselves homeless,” because neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party did not fully capulate the width of Catholic teaching.
He defended Durbin for his pro -immigrant stance, and said that the planned 3 November award ceremony could be busy with him and other political leaders in the hope of pressing his opinion on other issues, including abortion.
Cupich may be an invitation to the Catholics who encouraged the honor of the elderly and patients without getting tired.
The dispute came while President Donald Trump continued his administration Increased immigration sanction in the Chicago region.
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