Blase J. Cupich Quotes
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I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.
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Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship.
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'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.
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I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
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The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.
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Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.
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We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them.
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We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.
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Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.
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Radical individualism can be very sad.
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For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
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We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.
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It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.
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The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.
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Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.
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Let's face it: grandparents are very important to family systems. You're babysitters, but you also instill values in children that sometimes skip a generation.
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Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate's support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian.
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Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.
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I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.
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Parishes must be the safest places for a child to be.
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Hope in the future is deeply rooted in our national psyche. It is part of the soul of our nation.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.
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The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue.