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The Chicago Archbishop’s Cynical Move

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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, leads an inter-religious prayer service commemorating the third anniversary of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, Ill., February 24, 2025.

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You may know me as the annoying church lady who’s always trying to find common ground. Sometimes, that’s constructive. Other times, I have to surrender.

, archbishop of Chicago, is scheduled to give Michael Sacks the Award at the Rerum Novarum Awards Dinner on Thursday. The event is a fundraiser for Mundelein Seminary. (That’s a lot of Latin. Nostra Aetate is the Vatican II document on Catholic relations with non-Christian religions. Rerum Novarum is Pope Leo XIII’s labor encyclical.)

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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