Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, January 30, 2016.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, also slammed Trump’s controversial immigration ban. “The world is watching as we abandon our commitments to American values,” Cupich said in a statement released Sunday. “These actions give aid and comfort to those who would destroy our way of life. They lower our estimation in the eyes of the many peoples who want to know America as a defender of human rights and religious liberty, not a nation that targets religious populations and then shuts its doors on them.” [Sun-Times] [DNAinfo Chicago]
