Last week, the Archdiocese of Chicago dropped the news: they’re giving Senator Dick Durbin a lifetime achievement award.

Durbin, a long-time power player, a Democrat from Illinois, led the party, spoke loud on every big issue. Abortion rights? Check. Same-sex marriage? Check. Always pushing policies that step on the Church’s religious freedoms. Oh yeah, he’s Catholic. Hypocrisy? Maybe. Or just corrupting power.

And now he’s being honored. Why? Because he’s championed the immigrants, shielded the undocumented from prosecution. That’s the ticket. That’s what they’re celebrating. In reality, all he’s been pushing is cheap labor. That’s what this has all been about. Look, Democrats wanted mass immigration because they saw votes in it. Republicans wanted mass immigration because the Chamber of Commerce pushed it so that companies could hire cheap labor.

In what way, was Durbin and his cohorts dignifying anyone?

The event’s at Saint Ignatius College Prep, hosted by His Eminence, Cardinal Cupich—Archbishop of Chicago, and a guy with ties to Rome’s Dicastery for Bishops. The Cardinal’s no stranger to politics. He’s partisan, always on the liberal side. Not a criticism. Just fact.

But here’s the rub. The scandal. Cupich honors a guy who openly supports abortion, same-sex marriage, and policies that trample religious liberty. Attacks on human dignity, faith, the Church itself. That’s the truth. And it’s a shame. A disgrace.

It’s unserious. And it’s serving the political machine, not the cause of the Church. It confuses Catholics.

It’s being given by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s office of human dignity and solidarity. So yeah, other than the killing of millions of baby humans, he’s doing a great job. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?