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Cafeteria Catholics Eat From Either End of the Buffet, by Kenneth Craycraft – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Kenneth Craycraft, Catholic World Report, Oct. 2, 2025

Kenneth Craycraft is author of Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America.

Senator Durbin’s “ideological isolation” is contrary to Catholic moral doctrine, according to Cardinal Cupich’s own words.

On September 30, Senator Dick Durbin announced that he is declining a “Lifetime Achievement Award” offered to him by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The heated controversy surrounding the episode illustrates two related crises in American Catholic public life.

The first is that so-called cafeteria Catholics can be found at either end of the spectrum of moral doctrines. The second is that our moral lives and positions are more likely to be formed by American political commitments than by the entirety of Catholic moral theology.

Even though Senator Durbin has declined the award, the incident forces us Catholics to ask the uncomfortable question, “What is the real source of our moral convictions and policy preferences?” …

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