Blase Cupich named Chicago archbishop
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The Associated Press has learned Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Wash. will be the next Chicago archbishop, replacing Francis Cardinal George, the news agency reported Friday.
A person with knowledge of the selection spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person wasnt authorized to speak publicly. The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a news conference Saturday, but will not comment.
Pope Francis choice for Chicago has been closely watched. It is his first major U.S. appointment and the clearest sign yet of the direction he hopes to steer American church leaders.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/09/19/chicago-archdiocese-schedules-news-conference-for-saturday-about-cardinal/?utm_medium=VPH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=587270
Everything I'm seeing about Cupich is that he's what we've come to expect from Francis: Open to dialogue, pastoral, and reluctant to engage in "culture wars."
In other words, not much like Cardinal George.
47of74
(18,470 posts)UrbScotty
(23,979 posts)Fr. James Martin posted on his Facebook page a few quotes from Cupich:
"n the long run threats and condemnations have a limited impact."
"This is not a time for the bishops to sit back and applaud themselves for getting a handle on a shameful moment in church history."
"The Catholic Church has no tolerance for the misuse of this moment to incite hostility towards homosexual persons or promote an agenda that is hateful and disrespectful of their human dignity."
47of74
(18,470 posts)One of them had this to say in the comments section of the Dubuque paper's article announcing the appointment;
I was sorely tempted to respond to the right winger that if Francis acted the way he wanted there would probably be so many swimming the Thames that the Episcopal Diocese would probably have to buy the closed St. Mary's Church and reopen it as an Episcopal Church just to keep up. (Not that they would, they'd probably build a new parish in the west end if there was that sort of growth but saying something like that would surely cause a few right wing heads to explode).
okasha
(11,573 posts)"Wakinyan" has two aspects--the awesome Thunder Spirit and the Heyoka, who are the jesters. In Native American culture, the Heyoka do everything backwards, in ways that people don't expect.
I'm reading House's bio of Francis of Assisi, in which the author refers to Francis as God's troubador" and "God's jongleur"--in NA terms, Wakinyan. It seems to me that Pope Francis also shows both of these aspects, and if Cupich does, too, then Francis is in fact, very quietly, beginning a true revolution.
This is getting very, very interesting.