The retired archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas — a past chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee — is the latest American prelate to publicly chastise Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich for honoring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a long-standing advocate of legalized abortion.
Another U.S. bishop has publicly rebuked Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich for his plan to honor pro-abortion Sen. Richard Durbin with a lifetime achievement award.
In a statement released to the Register on Saturday, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, the recently retired ordinary of Kansas City, Kansas, said it is a “source of scandal” for the cardinal to recognize the Illinois senator in this way, calling it a case of “pastoral neglect.”
Archbishop Naumann is the latest American prelate to chastise Cardinal Cupich for deciding to honor Durbin — a Catholic politician whose own bishop banned him from receiving Communion in the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois — at the Chicago archdiocese’s Keep Hope Alive immigration-ministry fundraising dinner on Nov. 3.
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Bishops having publicly denounced Cardinal Cupich’s planned award for Dick Durbin:
- Bishop Thomas Paprocki (Springfield, IL)
- Archbishop Bishop Salvatore Cordelione (San Francisco)
- Bishop James Wall (Gallup, NM)
- Bishop James Conley (Lincoln, NE)
- Bishop David Ricken (Green Bay, WI)
- Bishop Joseph Strickland (Emeritus, Tyler, TX)
- Bishop Michael Olson (Ft. Worth, TX)
- Bishop Carl Kemme (Wichita, KS)
- Bishop James Johnston (Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO)
- Archbishop Joseph Naumann (Emeritus, Kansas City)
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