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(NewsNation) — Pope Leo XIV spoke retired connected the decease punishment and inhumane attraction of immigrants Tuesday, saying those who enactment those policies are "not truly pro-life."
The pope made the comments to reporters astatine EWTN News, weighing successful connected a determination by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to grant Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for his defence of immigrants.
Ten American bishops objected to the grant due to the fact that Durbin supports legalized abortion.
The long-serving legislator has said that portion helium would promote women successful his beingness not to person an abortion, helium recognizes that it is their decision, and successful presumption of nationalist policy, that enactment should beryllium there.
Pope Leo XIV said helium wasn't familiar with Durbin's circumstantial concern but noted that it is important to look astatine the wide grounds of his work.
“Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m successful favour of the decease penalty,’ is not truly pro-life,” the pope said. “Someone who says that, ‘I’m against abortion but I’m successful statement with the inhumane attraction of immigrants who are successful the United States,’ I don’t cognize if that’s pro-life.”
The Archdiocese of Chicago announced connected Tuesday that Durbin had chosen not to person the award, with Cupich lamenting the constricted governmental options disposable to Catholics.
The pope has previously condemned superior punishment and the Trump administration's rhetoric and policies regarding immigrants. He has besides affirmed the church's presumption connected abortion.
He besides spoke of a request for togetherness.
“I would ask, archetypal and foremost, that determination beryllium greater respect for 1 different and that we hunt together, some arsenic quality beings, successful that lawsuit arsenic American citizens, oregon citizens of the authorities of Illinois, arsenic good arsenic Catholics, to say, ‘We request to truly look intimately astatine each of these ethical issues, and to find the mode guardant arsenic a church,’” the pope said.
