In rare rebuke, Cardinal Cupich criticizes USCCB president’s letter to President Biden

Michael J O’Loughlin writes in America Magazine: 

In a rare public rebuke of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from one of its members, Cardinal Blase Cupich joined with an unnamed senior Vatican official in taking issue with a stinging statement released earlier today from the president of the bishops’ conference aimed at President Joe Biden’s views on abortion.

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