Posted on 09/21/2014 8:45:39 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Joe Six-Pack will be brief.
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This Pope is either evil or just plain stupid. Stupid. He’s a rube who is unfit to be Pope.
He is listening to the three worst American bishops, O’Malley, Dolan, and Wuerl. He is persecuting and humiliating one of the very best, Burke.
Cupich may be the worst possible choice as Archbishop of Chicago. Bernardin turned Chicago into a playground for the Catholic Left. He wrote checks to Obama! He gave millions to the Industrial Areas Foundation—i.e., ALINSKY. All this will resume under Cupich.
He hates traddies, pro-lifers, and the Eucharist.
Fr. Pfleger must dancing around the altar in his dashiki with even more flamboyance than usual.
The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, but many popes, bishops and Catholics still go to hell.
Yea, Bp. Blase Cupich. I’m thinking Bp. De Blasio Cupich. Good grief, what an absolute disaster. Headline in Chgo SunTimes: ‘Area Catholics Optimistic About Cupich’ They have their collective fingers crossed that Cupich will be more social justice and less dogmatic, (i.e truth.) As if George is a pillar of tradition. What a joke. Please kill me now.
The Society of St. Pius X takes it one step further. Because they are a borderline schismatic group anyway and have their own bishops, they really don't give a rat's @ss who the bishop of Chicago is.
SSPX,The Church Defeated. some of us are better conditioned for battle I reckon. fear not I’ll be on the front line.
I’m right there with ya brother. Catholics were born for combat.
I do not envy you guys. The Roman Catholic church seems to be on the edge of a major revolution.
While not a Catholic, I will pray for you all and the marriage synod coming up.
http://the-american-catholic.com/2014/09/21/blase-cupich-remembrance-of-things-past/
Blase Pelosi will not be missed by pro-lifers in Spokane.
Mark Shea back in 2011 gave some reasons why this appointment is disturbing:
A reader writes:
Dear Friends,We recently learned about a troubling decision regarding pro-life activities by our bishop, His Excellency Blase Cupich of the Diocese of Spokane.
I am emailing you because you are a parishioner in the diocese, or have a connection to the diocese, or you have the ability to make public this regrettable decision.
Bishop Cupich has informed all of his priests and seminarians that they cannot:
- pray outside of Planned Parenthood
- promote or organize peaceful protest outside Planned Parenthood in their parishes (naming 40 Days for Life specifically)
- or allow pro-life material to be distributed in their parishes unless it is published by the Washington State Conference of Catholic Bishops or the USCCB–who, ironically, support 40 DFL.
This information came to us directly from multiple Spokane priests. We were also told by these priests that Bishop Cupich identifies himself as pro-life, but disagrees with the “tactic” of praying outside of abortion clinics. The reason he gave for his decision is that he does not want his priests being identified with “extreme” pro-life persons.
We know you all understand the great concern that comes when a bishop is 1) not overtly supportive of pro-life activities and 2) will not allow his priests to fight for the pro-life cause by praying and giving witness to the sanctity of human life outside of Planned Parenthood.
My wife and I have written a letter that we will be sending to the bishop tomorrow and have copied the text below. I am asking that you also do what you can to help him change his mind, especially since we begin the fall campaign of 40 Days for Life in a few weeks.
Let us all pray for Bishop Cupich that he has a conversion of heart on this issue.
May God bless each of you as you fight for life!
The excuse of the stupid, drunk or drugged.
People being people, that is true. Nothing new here.
Sounds like you have some praying to do for them.
Lord have mercy on us.
In fact, two saints claim a line that signifies your premise.
“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.” St. John Chrysostom
“The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.” St. Athanasius, Council of Nicaea, AD 325
This needs to be our pro-life prayer.
**Let us all pray for Bishop Cupich that he has a conversion of heart on this issue.**
As late as the 1970’s the Chicago Archdiocese ran the 3rd largest school district in the US under Cardinal Stritch. After he passed away we had the guy from New Orleans (Rogano?) and then Bernadin.
St Sabina’s had a pastor Father Lawler who was trying to keep his parish together in a southwest side Irish neighborhood. Because the 3rd and 4th generation many who moved away were selling off those homes inherited from their grand parents and he was trying to keep there.
Lawlers activities were interpreted as anti black Lawler was removed and Poof moved in.
How likely is it that a stupid rube would be elected Pope?
Generally speaking, the calculating, conniving, manipulative types are the ones who rise to power when a politically based selection process is involved. His mean spirited treatment of the FFI, of Burke and of others, his horrible appointments and his delight in Kasperian theology have exposed his true Modernist colors.
From The American Catholic:
PopeWatch: Bernardin II
One of the chief ways of assessing any pope is to look at his appointments. Pope Francis has picked Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane to run the Chicago Archdiocese. PopeWatch believes this marks a return to the policies of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin who was in charge of the Chicago Archdiocese prior to Francis Cardinal George. Let us count the ways.
1. Seamless garment-
It’s a philosophy underscored by his previous job as bishop in Rapid City, South Dakota. Under his leadership, the “Pro-Life Committee” in the Rapid City diocese became the “Social Justice Committee.” It wasn’t a shift away from an anti-abortion message, Cupich says, but an expansion to all sorts of issues — opposition to capital punishment, support of immigration reform, concern for those in poverty.
2. Distancing from the pro-life cause-
As is his custom, the bishop has not responded. I do not understand Bp. Cupich’s hostility to the prolife movement and 40DFL, but this is not the first time I have gotten samizdat from some suffering soul in Spokane, struggling with the fact that the bishop appears to be bent on campaign of crushing and suppressing pro-life activity and punishing people for the crime of being orthodox. I do not understand that guy.
3. Hostility to traditional Catholicism-
RAPID CITY – A standoff between Latin-rite Catholics in Rapid City and their bishop has left the Latin Mass congregation of St. Michael’s choosing to celebrate Good Friday services on the sidewalk instead of in church.
Members of the Latin Mass community, which has met in Rapid City for the past 12 years at Immaculate Conception Church on Fifth Street, say Bishop Blase Cupich has barred them from celebrating Good Friday and Easter vigil services at the church in an attempt to mainstream them into the English-language Mass.
“We’ve been prohibited by the bishop from celebrating the Easter Triduum liturgies and locked out of our church from noon on Holy Thursday until 8 a.m. on Easter morning,” Dan Carda, 58, of Piedmont, said. Carda is a Latin Mass adherent who refuses to participate in the new-order English-language Mass that was mandated by the Second Vatican Council.
Instead, Carda and some of the other 220 members of St. Michael’s congregation will gather at 3 p.m. today for Good Friday services on the sidewalk in front of the church.
4. Toadying to the Democrat Party-
When most bishops refused to let Catholic Charities employees serve as Navigators for the Affordable Care Act, Cupich bucked the trend: Whatever problems the USCCB had with Obamacare and its contraception mandate, he was committed to using the infrastructure of the Church to help poor people access health insurance.
Just prior to the presidential election in 2008 he wrote an editorial in America raising the spectre that it was intrinsically evil for people to vote against Obama because of his race. The purpose of the editorial seemed to be to give cover for Obama on the abortion issue and was curious since the idea that large numbers of voters were voting against Obama simply because of his race was a mirror image of the actual role of race in that election. Go here to read the editorial.
He was the second to the last bishop to join the fight against the contraceptive mandate.
5. Dialogue will solve everything-
In Spokane, Cupich tries to speak to the full breadth of issues. And not just speak. His goal is to listen, he says.
“He probably would be more of a visionary bishop than I might have been,” says Skylstad, Spokane’s former bishop.
Skylstad adds that Cupich’s vision is one of conversation — to hold firm to Catholic beliefs, while engaging secular voices, like the U.S. government, in dialogue.
“I think that his voice reflects voices that used to be more common in the U.S. Catholic Congress of Bishops,” says Bryan Cones, managing editor of U.S. Catholic Magazine. In a recent blog post, Cones called Cupich “the bishop who can speak without shouting.”
Cones sees the interaction between the Catholic Church and the secular world as increasingly strident. With the loudest voices growing, Cones says, Cupich is an exception.
“Very caustic language wears thin quickly,” Cupich says. “I think my approach works better in the long run.”
6. Dialogue is a miracle working device, except with those more conservative than him-
This video is from a presentation at a conference bashing libertarianism at Catholic University in June of this year: “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism.”
All Catholics who wish to have the Church neutered in the public square should be pleased with this appointment. Those Catholics who believe in the Church Militant instead of the Church Mushy should be appalled. Somewhere in the next life, Bernardin is grinning. Back to the past for the Archdiocese of Chicago. With this appointment another piece of the puzzle that is Pope Francis falls into place.
http://the-american-catholic.com/2014/09/22/popewatch-bernardin-ii/
I don’t think it is a major revolution, just continuing to slowly circle the drain. In the end we’ll have a (much) smaller, stronger Church; the de facto protestants that comprise the majority of American Catholics will die off and their children (if they bothered having any) will be completely unchurched.
This appointment is odd because it seems geared to continue the cycle; liberals leaders of large dioceses are financial disasters.
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