BLASE CUPICH: PRAY FOR THE INTERCESSION OF ST. JOHN PAUL II

 Blase Cupich: Pray for the Intercession of St. John Paul II

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014

Preface:

    "The Catholic world has been abuzz over the news that Blase Cupich will succeed Francis George as the ninth archbishop of Chicago." This is very bad news for Catholics in America.

First, let's share the good news. 1) The national election on Tuesday and thank God for Fox News. Without their reportage, we would not know what is going on in America. 2) As of Tuesday, Dr. Ben Carson has officially changed affiliation from Independent to Republican . His volunteers helped out in all of Iowa's 99 counties to get Joni Ernest elected. He also helped out with radio ads to help defeat Kay Hagan in North Carolina.

    Thank God for Lifesitenews.com and the "New Oxford Review" November 2014 issue,  page 16 for the disturbed mindset of Blase Cupich which is an attack and insult to the "Catechism of the Catholic Church", the "Gospel of Life" and St. John Paul II.

Enter the American Bergoglio page 16

    "David Gibson of Religion News Service confirms NCR's (National Catholic Reporter) adulatory assessment, describing Archbishop-elect Cupich as " a prelate closely identified with the Catholic Church's progressive wing." ... Vatican-watcher Rocco Palma, whose Whispers in the Loggia blog tends to be reliable, called the appointment "the most shocking major move the American hierarchy has seen since the turn of millennium." ... he did explain that the choice of Cupich reflects the Pope's desire for a Church "geared toward the 'periphery' as opposed to being locked in its 'sacristies.' [Experiment but not in this area of the country.] ...

 

    "The appointment of Cupich," wrote Magister  (Oct 4), "is thought to have been recommended to the Pope with particular enthusiasm by Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga and above all by  Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, a representative of the 'liberal' old guard of the U.S. episcopate." [This is the tragic mindset that got Catholics attached to Barrack Obama's anti-Christian policies. Obama's social justice is neither Christian nor Catholic.]

 

    As for the mainstream media, we looked long and hard for any negative publicity about Archbishop-elect Cupich - and found none. Just about every major new outlet in the country, including the bilious Huffington Post, which misses no chance to bash the Church, has adulated him. (The anti-Catholic Huffington Post, ... has consistently written glowingly of Pope Francis.)

... What gives many orthodox Catholics pause is Cupich's - Francis's - emphasis on burying the Church's role in the so-called culture war. Francis, for example, famously said that the Church is "obsessed" with same-sex marriage and abortion. The implication: Catholics should back away from asserting a Catholic point of view in public forums. ...

 

    "According to Magister, Cupich "seems to get laryngitis every time there is a discussion of abortion, euthanasia, and religious freedom, or criticism of the Obama administration over health care reform." Lifesitenews.com reported that in 2011, as bishop of Spokane, Cupich urged priests and seminarians in the Spokane diocese not to pray outside abortion clinics. Cupich also expressed disapproval of the 40 Days for Life event, an international pro-life campaign that promotes prayer and fasting to end abortion ... Bishop Cupich was, in essence, telling pro-life Catholics to lock themselves in their "sacristies." ...

 

    A further indication that Cupich is on the same pastoral page as Francis came in an interview with Chicago's CBS affiliate in which Cupich indicated that he would be willing to give Holy Communion to anyone who approached him, including publicly pro-abortion politicians and LGBT activists wearing controversial buttons supporting same-sex marriage. "As long as they are in church, are willing to hear the word of God, be open to Christ's call of conversion for each one of us, then I think that's sufficient for me," he said.

 

    "We cannot politicize the communion rail, and I just don't think that that works in the long run." (As for why this is a fallacious argument, see Fr. Regis Scanlon's guest column "On Politicizing the Eucharist," NOR, Dec. 2013. Cupich's comment seems to be a colossal gibe at Raymond Cardinal Burke's well-documented stance on the issue... when it comes to same-sex marriage, a 2012 pastoral letter he (Cupich)wrote calling for a "more civil and honest conversation about Catholic positions on equality" garnered kudos from New Ways Ministry, the nation's leading Catholic ? promoter of same-sex marriage. ....

GEORGE H. KUBECK