There is no rite entitled "American Catholic rite."
Check for yourself:
Did you see "American Catholic" on there?
Posted on 09/24/2014 12:33:35 PM PDT by veritas2002
Now that he has been named archbishop of Chicago, many people have expressed interest in Bishop Blase Cupich’s time as bishop of the Diocese of Spokane. I should make clear that I barely know Bishop Cupich on a personal level. I am only a Catholic layman in the diocese of Spokane. I do, however, hold an endowed chair in “Christian Philosophy” at Gonzaga University, serve as academic advisor to Bishop White Seminary (an undergraduate college seminary at Gonzaga), and am a former director of Gonzaga’s small Catholic Studies Program. Gonzaga University is, primarily, a school of approximately 4800 undergraduates that calls itself Jesuit and Catholic and that operates within the Spokane diocese.
First, the good news: Not long after he was appointed to serve as bishop in Spokane, Cupich delivered a talk at Gonzaga as part of “Ignatian Heritage Week.” His lecture was devoted to the work of Christian Smith, an accomplished sociologist who is the director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame.
Professor Smith’s work is vast, but he is especially deft at using sociological tools to chronicle the inability of Christian parents and educational programs, including Catholic ones, to pass on the practice or even the mere knowledge of Christian faith to young people in the United States. In his presentation, Bishop Cupich seemed quite convinced by Smith’s analysis of our current and ongoing crisis.
This means that Cupich recognizes that there are very serious problems within the Catholic Church and within Catholic education in the United States. But Cupich may be unaware that after his appearance, Ignatian Heritage Week was taken over by Gonzaga administrators and that ideas such as Smith’s have hardly been featured during Ignatian Heritage Week ever since...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecatholicthing.org ...
See the rest of the article on the Catholic Thing website.
If it's required reading, why did you only post an excerpt that didn't contain the headlined answer? FR didn't require that you excerpt it.
“He tends to be conflict averse...” Yes, that will really help. Actually, from the article, it looks as if he tries to stifle even the suggestion that there is any conflict. Go along to get along.
Sadly this man is loathe to confront evil. Very sad what is happening in the Chicago area. First you have this fool Jenkins at Notre Dame enthusiastically embrace the greatest champion of abortion Obama and now this Cupich fellow who will quickly become a favorite of the Democrats and Rahm Emmanuel. Sorry but the church is being poorly served. Leadership matters.
Not good.
Nice little keyword you inserted on a Religion forum thread.
**American Catholic Church. **
No such thing.
SSPX chapels are few and far between, after all.
Don’t you mean the Catholic Church in America?
There is no rite entitled "American Catholic rite."
Check for yourself:
Did you see "American Catholic" on there?
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.
Golly, you don't say.
That’s the most confusing chart I’ve ever seen.
The Catholic Left will run riot while Cupich is in Chicago, which, if he’s in good health, will be ten years. He will treat pro-lifers and people who prefer the 1962 Missal like scum. He will never deny Communion to any pro-abortion “Catholic.” The Catholic Church in Chicago will continue to disintegrate. It is the return of Bernardin, without the charisma.
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