June 25th, 2004
Dolores R. Leckey
“Dolores Leckey was presented with the 2004 Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Award. Leckey served for twenty years as Executive Director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth at the USCCB. She is a prolific author on spirituality and Catholic leadership and was an official advisor to the American Catholic bishops at two Roman Synods. Dolores Leckey is only the third recipient of the Award, after the National Council of Catholic Women in 2001 and the Most Rev. Harry J. Flynn and the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis in 2003.”
~Excerpt from Peggie L. Thorp, “Reports from the Field,” In the Vineyard 3, no. 7 (July 2004), http://www.votf.org/vineyard/July04/reports_from_the_field.html.
*The award citation is unavailable.