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Pope Leo XIV challenges U.S. Catholics’ definition of “pro-life,” questioning how opponents of abortion can support death penalty or inhumane immigrant treatment.

The intervention came amid controversy over Chicago Cardinal’s plan to honor Sen. Dick Durbin despite his abortion rights support.

Durbin ultimately declined the lifetime achievement award after conservative bishops objected to honoring the Democratic senator.

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 Ca

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