Longtime Illinois Senator Dick Durbin had been set to receive the award from the Chicago archdiocese on Nov. 3. Some Catholic priests had objected to the award because of Durbin's support for legal ...

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The meetings of two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders chaired by Cardinal Blase Cupich were postponed indefinitely last week after a lay leader requested that the Chicago cardinal-archbishop’s ...

Various U.S. bishops expressed relief and happiness after U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, announced his decision to decline an award from the Chicago Archdiocese following backlash over his ...

Pope Leo XIV was leaving the papal villa near Rome at the end of September. He faced a gaggle of cameras and microphones, per usual. “Can I ask you a question in English?” a reporter from the American ...

The public clash between Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki over whether U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin should receive a lifetime achievement award from the Archdiocese of ...

Opposition is mounting against Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to honor U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Illinois, with a “lifetime achievement award” for his work surrounding immigration policy ...