Durbin declines award as USCCB pressure mounted | NYGazet

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

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. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich issued an announcement on the subject at... [9181 chars]