PopeWatch: Culture of Death

No doubt Archbishop Listecki could have given Republican politicians a stronger reminder that souls as well as votes are at stake when we ponder the meaning of the “pursuit of happiness.” But Cardinal Cupich faced a much greater challenge when he addressed the Democratic crowd in Chicago. He was speaking to a political party poised to make unrestricted abortion the defining issue of its 2024 campaign, a party that had welcomed Planned Parenthood to perform abortions for conventioneers, a party dedicated to eliminating “conscience rights” for doctors who don’t want to perform abortions and taxpayers who don’t want to subsidize them, a party that was pledged to help young people mutilate themselves in conformance with gender ideology, a party whose nominee has questioned whether a practicing Catholic could be qualified as a judicial nominee. On the whole constellation of moral issues that Pope John Paul II associated with the “culture of death,” the Democratic Party was and is squarely in opposition to Catholic teaching.

Yet nowhere in his invocation did Cardinal Cupich offer the slightest challenge to the perverse ideology that ruled the Democratic convention. Quite the contrary; the few passages in his prayer that might have been interpreted as references to current political issues sounded more like encouragement for the Democrats. When the cardinal spoke of “a nation composed of every people and culture,” was he nodding approval for the Democrats’ welcome to immigrants? When he decried “fear of the other,” was that a reference to the diversity-and-equity agenda? Certainly there was nothing in the cardinal’s invocation that could be read as even a hint of disapproval for the Democratic party’s platform.

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