Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
- Newly ordained Catholic cardinal Blase Cupich tackles gun violence, brings Pope Francis’s vision to Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Bruce Rauner, Senator Dick Durbin and Illinois supreme court justice Anne Burke were all at the Vatican in Rome over the weekend to watch Pope Francis officially make Blase Cupich a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The Atlantic published an interesting feature on Cupich’s important role in Chicago and his efforts to curb gun violence. “Pope Francis often speaks about his vision of a Catholic Church that is focused on the margins of society, where people have the most pain and need,” Emma Green writes. “Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that the man who has been called America’s Pope Francis is assigned to Chicago. This is a city where the need is undeniably great—and where the viability of Francis’s vision is being tested.” [Atlantic]
