Blase J. Cupich Quotes
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The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.
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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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Radical individualism can be very sad.
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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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For me, the real goal is how do we make vibrant and vital faith communities that are sustainable for the long run.
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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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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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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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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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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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Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.
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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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I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.