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USCCB

Can the USCCB move from accidents to great ideas?

Is 'Durbingate' a chance to raise the caliber of episcopal conversation?

JD Flynn
Oct 03, 2025
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When Cardinal Blase Cupich announced Monday that he would not give an award next month to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, he also offered a statement explaining why he’d offered the award in the first place, and what he hoped would come after a contentious row over the affair.

U.S. bishops meet Nov. 14, 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland, as part of the fall plen…

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