{"id":13907,"date":"2025-10-01T03:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pope-leo-speaks-up-on-dick-durbins-behalf-amid-abortion-rift-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:20:49","slug":"pope-leo-speaks-up-on-dick-durbins-behalf-amid-abortion-rift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pope-leo-speaks-up-on-dick-durbins-behalf-amid-abortion-rift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin\u2019s behalf amid abortion rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV made a direct foray into U.S. politics Tuesday, offering measured support for the Chicago Archdiocese&rsquo;s plan to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who supports abortion rights, with a &ldquo;lifetime achievement award&rdquo; for his work on immigration policy. The pope&rsquo;s comments to reporters come as anti-abortion advocates are condemning Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich and the archdiocese&rsquo;s immigration ministry for planning to give Durbin the award at a Nov&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/30\/congress\/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV made a direct foray into U.S. politics Tuesday, offering measured support for the Chicago Archdiocese&rsquo;s plan to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who supports abortion rights, with a &ldquo;lifetime achievement award&rdquo; for his work on immigration policy. The pope&rsquo;s comments to reporters come as anti-abortion advocates are condemning Chicago Archbishop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}