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Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas (photo: Scott Maentz / Flickr (CC BY 2.0) via CNA)
By Shannon Mullen, National Catholic Register,
Shannon Mullen is the Editor-in-Chief of the Register
Editor’s note: This story was amended the evening of Sept. 27, 2025, after posting, to correct the tally of current diocesan bishops who have spoken out against honoring Sen. Dick Durbin.
The retired archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas — a past chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee — is the latest American prelate to publicly chastise Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich for honoring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a long-standing advocate of legalized abortion.
Another U.S. bishop has publicly rebuked Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich for his plan to honor pro-abortion Sen. Richard Durbin with a lifetime achievement award.
In a statement released to the Register on Saturday, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, the recently retired ordinary of Kansas City, Kansas, said it is a “source of scandal” for the cardinal to recognize the Illinois senator in this way, calling it a case of “pastoral neglect.”
Archbishop Naumann is the latest American prelate to chastise Cardinal Cupich for deciding to honor Durbin — a Catholic politician whose own bishop banned him from receiving Communion in the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois — at the Chicago archdiocese’s Keep Hope Alive immigration-ministry fundraising dinner on Nov. 3. …
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