Posted on 10/13/2016 8:49:17 AM PDT by ebb tide
(Washington) The Cardinal in Spe, Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, stated in an interview that his interpretation of the controversial post-synodal letter Amoris laetitia "is the same from Pope Francis."
From a progressive outsider to the influential church prince
Monsignor Cupich was not only the Bishop of the tiny Diocese of Spokane in the state of Washington in 2014, but also the progressive outsider in the American Episcopal Conference. Nevertheless, or just as observers say, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Chicago, one of the most important diocese in the world. Since then, the Argentine pope has been calling on Cupich to bring the US episcopate on a Bergoglio course, or at least become a troublesome thorn in the flesh of a recently quite compact episcopate.
Since the American bishops did not pick Cupich perhaps because of his liberal line, for the bishop's synod on the family, Pope Francis personally appointed him.
Last Sunday, the Catholic church leader announced that he would honor Cupard on 19th November with the Cardinal dignity. Two diocesan bishops of the United States were given the purple. Among them, there is no "conservative", no less embarrassing to the papal entourage than the "traditionalists."
Cupich proved "worthy" of papal trust and distinguished himself in Chicago and Rome as a representative of the "New Mercy". The Catholic online daily Nuova Bussola Quotidiana wrote of "deliramenta of a pope confidante". What is meant by this is the emphasis on "subjective conscience".
The "untouchable" subjective conscience
The "New Mercy", where it comes in contradiction to the delivered Church doctrine, confronts the latter with the "personal conscience".
On October 16, 2015, Archbishop Cupich repeated this old-progressive thesis for journalists to declare his support for the admission of newly married divorced to Communion: "When people arrive at a decision of conscience, it is our task to help them go further and to respect them. The conscience is inviolable and we have to respect it when they make their decision, and I have always done it."
Whoever says A also says B, so the same rule, according to Cupich, also applies to homosexuals. The doyen of leftist journalism in Italy, the Eugenio Scalfari, who hails from a Masonic house,, had put words in Pope Francis' mouth, without the Vatican having denied it, that the subjective conscience is an "inviolable" and "respectable" arbiter.
Vatican Insider published an interview, which the papal court vaticanist Andrea Tornielli held with Cupich on the occasion of his elevation to the cardinal rank. Yesterday, the English and Spanish version appeared, today also the Italian.
Tornielli: One of the most discussed topics of the past few months was the interpretation of the eighth chapter of Exhoratio Amoris Laetitia regarding the remarried divorced. There were different interpretations: there are those who say that nothing has changed, and those who say that something has changed. What is your position on this?
Archbishop Cupich: My position is the same as that of Pope Francis, who has indicated that the proper interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia” was given by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and then again by the bishops of Argentina, for which the Pope noted “no further interpretation is needed.” So if people want to know what I think, they should refer to those sources. I also draw attention to the fine article written by Professor Rocco Buttiglione in L’Osservatore Romano on July 19 of this year, which I reprinted in our archdiocesan newspaper. Professor Buttiglione makes a convincing case for the continuity of the teaching of Pope Francis on these matters with his predecessors and with The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Statistics put out by my Diocese indicate that over the past fifteen years the number of Catholics has fallen by 1/3 and Mass attendance has fallen by half.
Follow the Money.
“It will be hard-going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek . . . The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain . . . But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.”
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. “The church will become small.” from Faith and the Future (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009).
So, to follow the ‘logic’ of the newly appointed cardinal, when people make a decision of conscience to sin grievously, we have to support them in their sins and help them to go even further, because their decision is “inviolable”.
This is totally at odds with perennial Catholic teaching, and also with common sense.
I suspect a whole lot of the Bishops and Cardinals are not down with “poor and meek”.
I’ll take Archbishop Sample’s point of view.
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Will the good cardinal also respect the conscience of those priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago who disagree with him?
A putrid Cardinal from a putrid Pope.
Bing for EMMA BONINO POPE FRANCIS.
Benedict was the only man preventing Bergoglio from becoming Pope, and he ran away.
And now he says he resigned because he couldn’t fly anymore to those abominable World Youth Day sacrileges.
I like it..SUBJECTIVE CONSCIENCE....So,if I feel that destroying lib Catholics will save souls,those same lib Catholics will have nothing but praise for my actions..After all,I thought about it and in my good conscience felt it was the right thing to do....
Let’s see what cupich thinks when the abortion movement is destroyed....Let’s see what he thinks,after the 157 catholic universities are destroyed and bankrupted for supporting Planned parenthood and abortion...That day will come...Let’s see if he praises the “subjective conscience” of those prolifers......
But Pope Francis will be elevating the heretic Cupich, and not Archbishop Sample, to the College of Cardinals this November.
It’s less and less likely that our next Pope will be an orthodox Catholic.
I assume by your FR handle ... somewhere in Ohio?
Cardinal in Spe, Blase Cupich long ago ceased to be Catholic but he is one Hell of an Anglican.
Regardless of one's views on why Benedict resigned, etc, etc, his resignation merely sped up the advent of Bergoglio's "papacy". It twas going to happen eventually..it was just a matter of time.
Since there is a finite number of days until the end of time, it is not a waste of time to try to prevent a disaster like this papacy. I.e., not every evil “is going to happen eventually.” If the advent of such an evil can be delayed, it just might be prevented entirely.
There is also only a finite number of days before Bergoglio’s death, and the same principle holds. Every day Benedict could have stayed in office would have been a day closer to Bergoglio’s death.
There is an ample supply of Cardinals who are capable of being just as putrid in the papacy as Bergoglio.
It is true that some future Pope must begin the process of repudiating the vandalism wrought by the worst Pope in history (prior to 2013), Paul VI, and the abominations of Bergoglio.
I find it HIGHLY unlikely that Bergoglio or someone like him wasn’t going to be elected eventually. I find it equally unlikely that the next conclave will elect someone much different than Bergoglio. So far there is NOT ONE Cardinal who stands out as a winner. Chances are, he will be worse.
Only God can sort this out.
Surely you know that being a Cardinal is not a prerequisite for becoming Pope.
Yes, thanks for reminding me. Having said that, what is the chance that someone outside the conclave would be elected?
As you yourself has said, “Only God can sort this out”.
Don’t despair. Pray the Rosary and pray hard.
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