The Deep Church Meets the Deep State in Chicago, by Joseph D’Hippolito

By Joseph D’Hippolito, The Stream, August 27, 2024

Joseph D’Hippolito is a freelance writer who has written commentaries for such outlets as The Jerusalem Post, American Thinker, and Front Page Magazine.

One of the nation’s most influential Catholic figures had the chance to issue a moral challenge to some of his country’s most powerful politicians recently — and failed to do so.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Catholic archbishop of Chicago, gave the invocation at the Democrats’ national convention Aug. 19 while one of Planned Parenthood’s mobile clinics provided free abortions and vasectomies less than two miles from the convention site, Chicago’s United Center.

Yet Cupich said nothing.

Conservative Catholics expressed outrage:

• Mary Kate Zander, executive director of Illinois Right to Life, on Aug. 20: “Cardinal Cupich missed a clear opportunity last night to condemn [the Democrats’] vile, murderous policies and, in effect, betrayed the vibrant pro-life community that he once aligned himself with in our state.” ….

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