ROME — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”

Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for his work helping immigrants. The plans drew objection from some conservative U.S. bishops given the powerful senator’s support for abortion rights. ×

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