Blase J. Cupich Quotes
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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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 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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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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We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.
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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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'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.
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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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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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Radical individualism can be very sad.
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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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I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.
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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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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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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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The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue.
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The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.
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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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Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
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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.