{"id":190717,"date":"2025-11-16T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190717"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:31:27","slug":"pope-leo-speaks-up-on-dick-durbins-behalf-amid-abortion-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190717","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin\u2019s behalf amid abortion rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV made a direct foray into U.S. politics Tuesday, offering measured support for the Chicago Archdiocese\u2019s plan to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who supports abortion rights, with a \u201clifetime achievement award\u201d for his work on immigration policy.<br \/>\nThe pope\u2019s comments to reporters come as anti-abortion advocates are condemning Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich and the archdiocese\u2019s immigration ministry for planning to give Durbin the award at a Nov&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/30\/congress\/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV made a direct foray into U.S. politics Tuesday, offering measured support for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}