A combination photo shows US Sen. Dick Durbin, speaking about Trump administration
policies towards immigrants at a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington
April 10, 2019, and Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago in a 2018 photo at the Vatican. The
Archdiocese of Chicago is scheduled to present Sen. Durbin a ‘Lifetime Achievement
Award’ November 3, 2025, for his work with immigrants; the decision has been criticised
by some Catholic bishops because of the Catholic senator’s public position on abortion.
Photo: OSV News/Jim Bourg, Reuters/CNS photo/Paul Haring I’m shopping for a church!” an American once told me. As a cradle Catholic, the notion seemed alien to me. Yet how many of us, followers of Christ, opt to choose and create a Church in our own image and likeness, to suit how we live? “I only believe half of it,” a well-known Catholic…
Martina Purdy