Posted on 04/15/2020 5:51:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
Chicago's Blase Cupich bashes Catholic contender for US Senate
CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Chicago's archbishop is sidelining prayer while bashing the piety of the Catholic challenger to so-called Catholic, pro-abortion politician Sen. Dick Durban (D-Ill.).
Cardinal Blase Cupich brushed aside prayer when asked on Thursday about those like Republican Senate candidate Mark Curran, who are calling on the Catholic Church to safely dispense the sacraments amidst the pandemic scare.
"Religion is not magic where we just say prayers and think things are going to change," said Cupich. "God gave us a brain and the gift of intelligence and we have to use it in this moment."
Curran, who has been a daily communicant and advocate of frequent confessions, said earlier this month that the Church should find safe ways to administer the sacraments instead of suspending them entirely.
Earlier this month Cupich canceled the Easter Duty, whereby Catholics receive the sacraments of confession and Holy Communion during the Easter season, for those in his archdiocese.
In his decree issued on April 5, Cupich mandated "that the obligation to receive Holy Communion during the Easter season is removed this year due to the impossibility of attendance by the People of God at celebration of Holy Mass."
Confessing serious sins was similarly pushed off by the cardinal to some indefinite period in the future:
All of the faithful, in accord with the Tradition and Teaching of the Church, are urged to offer a perfect Act of Contrition, in complete dependence upon the mercy and love of God, in sorrow for all sins and with a firm resolve to confess all serious sin at the next available time.
On April 6, media reported Curran taking exception to such measures.
"I am at a loss as to how having one person......
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Sorry but this guy Cucich is an obvious agnostic. That is his right. However it is very hypocritical to wear the robes of a Roman Catholic Cardinal, living well off the donations of the faithful and using his position to support politicians that laugh at and mock the Catholic Church. If he had any decency , he would resign.
Remember the prophecy?
“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.”
~ Cardinal Francis George
Cardinal Stunad.
“...God gave us a brain and the gift of intelligence..”
Where were you when he handed it out dupek?
What monsters have seized the Church.
Ping
It’s ludicrous that confessions can’t be heard behind a screen. Absolutely insane.
RCINC is the oldest most profitable multinational corporation on the planet. The CEO of RCINC is a gaia worshiping pedophile enabler
Can you have confession over the phone or via Webex?
No. It needs to be in person.
Can’t protect the shield of confession if you do it over the phone/internet.
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