John Allen has an interesting commentary on the Cardinal Cupich debacle in wanting to give a Catholic award to Senator Durbin for his immigration efforts which are laudable despite his rabidly pro-abortion advocacy in the senate. You can read his commentary at Crux HERE.
The scandal was about the award to be given to a Catholic who ignores the foundation of the seamless garment of pro-life teachings of the Church, the foundation of what it means to be pro-life.
It is like giving an architect who designed a stunningly beautiful skyscraper from the ground-up, but left out the foundation for it, only to have the whole thing collapse. Well, he designed a pretty building, let’s give an award for it anyway.
I don’t think that we can make a caricature of pro-life Catholics whose only passion is the protection of the unborn. They have the foundation of the seamless garment of Catholic pro-life teachings, but haven’t yet built the rest of the building, but the foundation is in place!
I think most who advocate for saving the life of unborn babies are flabbergasted at the police-state tactics directed to immigrants to this country, who were allowed by governmental authorities to break the law to enter into this country and then enabled to find jobs that others didn’t want and in the long time they have been here have been assets in quiet ways to the communities in which they live as well as to their faith communities.
In the USA, the death penalty is no longer needed to keep society safe and many who champion the right to life of the unborn are also seeking to find alternatives to the death penalty.
Are there Catholics who are rabidly anti-abortion but are lauding indiscriminately deporting all illegal immigrants, regardless of their contributions to their communities? Yes, just as there are those passionate about immigration reform and protection of illegal immigrants but are rabidly pro-choice.
What many, like John Allen, are missing in all of this is that Cardinal Cupich wanted to give an award to a Catholic politician whose pro-life record has no foundation and therefore is quite dangerous to the seamless garment of the Church’s Pro-life teachings and agenda.
And in case anyone has a short memory about how bishops shuffled priests from parish to parish but accused and guilty of grotesque child and teenage sexual abuse as well as abuse of vulnerable adults, the reason given was they did other good things in their ministries, especially helping the poor and downtrodden. And supposedly, they were rehabilitated.
Was that a debacle? No, that is too kind of a description to give to that kind of horror that destroyed lives, led many to suicide and has diminished the moral authority of the Church!
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What exactly were Sen. Durbin's contributions to immigration policy? Letting in murderers and child traffickers? Giving them taxpayer funded health care, college tuition and housing? Who is being rounded up by ICE: murders, drunk drivers, violent criminals, traffickers, drug dealers, gang members...read some of the rap sheets on these (mostly) guys. Do others get swept up in these raids who are "only" guilty of immigration violations? Yes. But the vast - even overwhelming - majority are not those who "only want a better life". Those illegal immigrants are not normally hanging around with drug dealers and gang members.
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