Amidst all the turmoil surrounding Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to honor Senator Dick Durbin last month, objections raised by the faithful (including Cupich’s brother bishops), and Pope Leo’s unscripted comments,
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Amidst all the turmoil surrounding Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to honor Senator Dick Durbin last month, objections raised by the faithful (including Cupich’s brother bishops), and Pope Leo’s unscripted comments, almost no attention has been given to a fundamental theological problem underlying the entire fiasco. “The tragedy of our current situation in the United States,” Cupich wrote in a statement after Senator Durbin declined the award, “is that Catholics find themselves politically homeless.”
