“NO MAN SHALL TAKE THIS LIFE”
"Your city and many cities and countries throughout the world will suffer for the murders of the Holy Innocents. Life, the spirit of life, is breathed--the soul placed by the Eternal Father into the body of the unborn at the precise, exact moment of conception. Do not fall prey to the fallacy there is no life until the child emerges from the womb. No! I say to you: life begins at the moment of conception. The Eternal Father breathes the spirit of life at the moment of conception. No man shall take this life, for as such he is guilty and found guilty by the Eternal Father of murder!”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, September 6, 1975
SIN A WAY OF LIFE
"My child and My children, as it was in the past, so it shall be. There are many now foul deeds being committed upon the earth that cry to Heaven for retribution. The leaders of your country have lost their way, My child and My children. They are now making sin a way of life.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1992
NEITHER HOT NOR COLD
"My Mother has been sent to you to guide you in the days ahead. She is a Mediatrix between mankind and the Eternal Father. Do not cast Her words aside or treat them lightly, for you are then going fast into darkness.
"When you come before Me, the Eternal Father, and the Spirit, you will be judged. If you are found lukewarm, neither being hot nor cold, I will vomit you from My mouth and cast you into the fires of eternal damnation! You cannot play the middle road, My pastors! You cannot mislead My sheep by giving in to the values of man! You must not change--you must not trade your soul and bargain for your world. No man can have both, the world and the spirit.”
– The Bayside Propheices
Jesus, May 17, 1975
YOU SHALL FALL
"There are only two forces upon earth, My children: good and evil. You cannot at this time walk a middle course, for if you become lukewarm you shall fall.”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady, October 6, 1977
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
Bishop Paprocki, Archbishop Cordileone Urge Cardinal Cupich to Drop Award for Pro-Abortion Sen. Durbin...
CatholicVote.org reported on September 22, 2025:
Two prominent U.S. bishops are publicly urging Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago to rescind plans to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., with a “Lifetime Achievement Award,” citing the senator’s decades-long record of supporting abortion.
On Sept. 19, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield — Durbin’s home diocese — issued a blistering statement: “I was shocked to learn that the Archdiocese of Chicago plans to honor Senator Richard Durbin with a Lifetime Achievement Award through its Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity Immigration,” Paprocki said.
He stressed that Durbin’s record is incompatible with Catholic teaching.
“Given Senator Durbin’s long and consistent record of supporting legal abortion — including opposing legislation to protect children who survive failed abortions — this decision risks causing grave scandal, confusing the faithful about the Church’s unequivocal teaching on the sanctity of human life,” Bishop Paprocki wrote. “Honoring a public figure who has actively worked to expand and entrench the right to end innocent human life in the womb undermines the very concept of human dignity and solidarity that the award purports to uphold.”
Paprocki reminded Cardinal Cupich that both the U.S. bishops and Chicago’s own policies bar honoring individuals who promote abortion.
“Senator Durbin, who has been barred from receiving Holy Communion in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois since 2004 for his public support of abortion, should not be celebrated by the Church. This decision not only contradicts the Church’s moral doctrine but also sows confusion about the seriousness of abortion and the integrity of Catholic witness in public life,” Bishop Paprocki added. “I urge Cardinal Cupich to reconsider this action for the sake of clarity, unity, and fidelity to the Gospel of Life.”
On Sept. 21, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco amplified Bishop Paprocki’s concerns in a statement posted on X.
“I stand in solidarity with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, in urging Cardinal Cupich to reconsider giving Senator Durbin a Lifetime Achievement Award through the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity given his long record of supporting legal abortion,” Archbishop Cordileone wrote.
Highlighting Durbin’s extremism, the archbishop added that “Bishop Paprocki, who is Senator Dick Durbin’s bishop, has expressed shock that the Archdiocese plans to honor Senator Durbin who, although a self-professed Catholic, supports access to abortion so radically that he has even opposed legislation to protect babies born after an attempted abortion. Bishop Paprocki is correct that both clarity and unity are at risk. I hope this will be a clarion call to all members of the Body of Christ to speak out to make clear the grave evil that is the taking of innocent human life.”
As reported by CatholicVote, Durbin, the Senate Democratic Whip, has been one of the most reliable pro-abortion votes in Washington. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America has consistently given him an “F” rating.
In the last Congress alone, Durbin “consistently voted to eliminate or prevent protections for the unborn and for children born alive after failed abortions,” SBA Pro-Life America noted, adding that he has voted to use taxpayer dollars for abortions, including covering abortion travel.
Earlier this year, Durbin condemned the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, defending Roe v. Wade as “a giant step forward in gender equity.”
The lifetime achievement award is tied to the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity Immigration Ministry. According to the archdiocese, the Nov. 3 banquet at Saint Ignatius College Prep will recognize “community leaders whose generous work and dedication have helped to advance our mission in the Archdiocese of Chicago and beyond.”
Proceeds will largely support the archdiocese’s immigration initiatives, including “pastoral migratoria,” a leadership program launched in Chicago in 2008 now active in parishes nationwide.
CatholicVote also reported that the decision has already sparked a wave of criticism. Dr. Mary Elizabeth Keen of the Catholic Medical Association’s Illinois chapter called it “devastating.”
“Our shepherds are supposed to proclaim Jesus’ teaching that all human life is sacred,” Keen told CatholicVote. “Senator Durbin has spent his career eliminating protections for the most vulnerable members of the human family.”
Illinois Right to Life also criticized the move in a Sept. 18 statement.
President Mary Kate Zander argued, “We cannot espouse pro-life values when it comes to abortion while simultaneously honoring a notoriously pro-abortion politician for his immigration policies. Presenting Dick Durbin with an award – and from the Office of Human Dignity, no less – is an explicitly inconsistent and un-Catholic choice by Cardinal Cupich. Not only does it cause scandal among the faithful by creating confusion, it also puts the Senator’s soul at risk by failing to hold him accountable.”
The group urged Catholics to contact the archdiocese to oppose the award.
Durbin’s estrangement from Church discipline goes back two decades. In 2004, then-Monsignor Kevin Vann — Durbin’s pastor in Springfield, later bishop of Orange, California — barred him from receiving Holy Communion. Bishop Paprocki reaffirmed that ban in 2021.
Pope Leo XIV Wades into Durbin Debate...
CatholicNewsAgency.com reported on September 30, 2025:
By Valentina di Donato , Madalaine Elhabbal
Pope Leo XIV responded to controversy over the Chicago cardinal’s plans to honor a Catholic U.S. senator who supports legalized abortion, saying that the senator’s record should be considered in its totality and that Americans should search together for the truth on ethical issues.
Several U.S. bishops condemned Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich’s plans to honor U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Illinois, with a “lifetime achievement award” for his work surrounding immigration policy despite his pro-abortion voting record.
“I am not terribly familiar with the particular case. I think it’s important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I’m not mistaken, in 40 years of service in the United States Senate,” the pope told reporters on Tuesday in response to a question from EWTN News.
He said: “I understand the difficulty and the tensions. But I think as I myself have spoken in the past, it’s important to look at many issues that are related to the teachings of the Church.”
“Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” the pope explained. “Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro life.”
“So they are very complex issues and I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them,” he continued, “but I would ask first and foremost that they would have respect for one another and that we search together both as human beings and in that case as American citizens and citizens of the state of Illinois, as well as Catholics, to say that we need to be close to all of these ethical issues. And to find the way forward as a Church. The Church teaching on each one of those issues is very clear.”
The number of U.S. bishops who have condemned Cupich’s decision to honor Durbin with a “lifetime achievement award” has risen to 10, including two bishops emeritus.
The Chicago-born Pope Leo spoke to reporters as he was leaving the papal villa of Castel Gandolfo near Rome, where in recent weeks he has made it a practice to spend Tuesdays before returning to the Vatican.
Seven current bishops have joined Springfield, Illinois, Bishop Thomas Paprocki in calling on Cupich to reconsider honoring Durbin including Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco; Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska; Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico; Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay, Wisconsin; Bishop Carl Kemme of Wichita, Kansas; Bishop James Johnston of St. Joseph-Kansas City, Missouri; and Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas.
The recently retired Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, also addressed the controversy over the weekend in a statement released to the National Catholic Register, CNA’s sister news partner, in which he referred to the move by Cupich as a “source of scandal.”
Cupich has defended the award as being aligned with instructions by the then-Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2022, which instructed bishops “to reach out to and engage in dialogue with Catholic politicians within their jurisdictions.”
A spokesperson for Cupich did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Responding to Cupich’s argument, Naumann said in the statement: “Dialogue does not require giving awards to Catholic political leaders who disregard the most fundamental of human rights, the right to life of the unborn.”
Bishop Emeritus Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, has also called on Cupich to reverse his decision to proceed with the award.
In an interview on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on Sept. 25, Paprocki called on the Chicago cardinal to either withdraw the award or Durbin himself to decline it.
A spokesperson for Durbin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cupich has since canceled meetings with two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders, the Catholic Conference of Illinois and a separate meeting of Illinois bishops, this past week.
So far, the Illinois bishops of Peoria, Rockford, and Joliet have refrained from joining Paprocki in calling for Cupich to reverse his decision, while the Diocese of Belleville is currently awaiting the appointment of a new bishop, after its former Bishop Michael McGovern was appointed archbishop of Omaha.
"The judgment of your God is not akin to the judgment of man. The Eternal Father will only judge by the heart. Your rank, your accumulation of worldly goods does not set you up before another. Many have sold their souls within the holy House of God. Better that you strip yourself and remove all worldly interests now while you have the time to make amends to your God, for many mitres will fall into hell."
- The Bayside Prophecies
St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972
LUKEWARM SHALL BE CAST ASIDE
"My children, My Mother has taken it upon Herself to act as a Mediatrix between God the Father and man. Her heart is torn constantly by the rejection She receives from mankind, for the good have become complacent, and the bad have become worse. And in between We find those who 'care less,' for they are neither hot nor warm, but lukewarm. And even the lukewarm shall be cast aside in the final count.”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, December 7, 1978
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