{"id":13951,"date":"2025-10-02T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dick-durbin-says-he-was-overwhelmed-by-popes-support-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:20:34","slug":"dick-durbin-says-he-was-overwhelmed-by-popes-support-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dick-durbin-says-he-was-overwhelmed-by-popes-support-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Durbin says he was \u2018overwhelmed\u2019 by pope\u2019s support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Wednesday he was &ldquo;overwhelmed&rdquo; by Pope Leo XIV&rsquo;s comments on his behalf, made this week after the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago&rsquo;s decision to honor the pro-abortion-rights Democrat for his immigration work sparked a backlash from conservatives. The pontiff &mdash; a Chicago-area native who has voted in elections where Durbin was on the ballot &mdash; said &ldquo;it&rsquo;s important to look at the overall work that a senator has done&rdquo; and said a politician should not be judged only on their stance on abortion&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/01\/congress\/dick-durbin-pope-leo-reaction-00590242\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Wednesday he was &ldquo;overwhelmed&rdquo; by Pope Leo XIV&rsquo;s comments on his behalf, made this week after the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago&rsquo;s decision to honor the pro-abortion-rights Democrat for his immigration work sparked a backlash from conservatives. The pontiff &mdash; a Chicago-area native who has voted in elections where Durbin was [&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-13951","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\/13951","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=13951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}