Pro-Life Group Will Protest Cardinal Cupich Giving Award to Abortion Activist
Pro-life groups plan a peaceful protest Thursday outside an Archdiocese of Chicago fundraiser where Cardinal Blase Cupich is scheduled to honor a major donor to Planned Parenthood and abortion. The Pro-Life Action League will join Illinois Right to Life outside the Seminary Salutes Rerum Novarum dinner at IBEW Local 134. Cardinal Cupich and seminary rector the Very Rev. John Kartje are set to present the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Nostra Aetate Award to hedge fund manager Michael J. Sacks, chairman and CEO of GCM Grosvenor. The event raises money for the formation of future priests. Federal tax filings show the Sacks Family Foundation gave roughly $500,000 to Planned Parenthood of Illinois from 2020 to 2022. In September, Sacks and his wife contributed $600,000 to a state-backed fund that facilitates killing babies in abortions that benefited Planned Parenthood of Illinois and the Chicago…