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Durbin declines award as USCCB pressure mounted

Senior leaders at the U.S. bishops' conference were preparing to release a statement on a controversial archdiocesan award

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Oct 01, 2025
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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin declined on Tuesday a lifetime achievement award he was scheduled to receive from the Archdiocese of Chicago’s office of human dignity and solidarity.

Cardinal Blase Cupich during a 2017 Chicago prayer walk. Credit: Simone Orendain/VOA. public domain.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich issued an announcement on the subject at the s…

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