Cardinal Cupich Cancels Univ. of Chicago Mass, Tells Students Not to Go to Local Parish

LifeSite News ^ | 4/26/21 | Staff

[marshmallow]

The dissident Archbishop of Chicago was acting on his own and not per order of the university or the city.

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Archdiocese of Chicago, led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, shut down Masses for University of Chicago students earlier this month and asked students not to attend Mass at a local parish either.

“University of Chicago students couldn’t attend Mass this weekend because church officials insisted it’s unsafe to worship when 0.6 percent of young people threatened more by flu contracts COVID-19,” wrote University of Chicago student Evita Duffy in a Chicago Thinker article republished at The Federalist on April 20. “This was not the result of a directive from the secular UChicago administration. The decision came directly from the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich, who ordered the campus church to cancel Mass for students due to the campus COVID ‘outbreak.’”

The Chicago Department of Public Health had issued a directive to extend current precautions at the university because 0.6% of the student population were considered positive for the Wuhan coronavirus. With a total of around 15,000 students, this means that about 90 students were infected.

Not only was Holy Mass canceled for the Catholic students at the Catholic Center Calvert House, but in an email distributed to the students from Associate Director of Campus Ministry Matthew Moran, the students were directed to not attend Holy Mass at the nearby St. Thomas the Apostle Church.

“Noncompliance would be risky for the health of the parish community and could be scandalous for those aware of the restrictions,”Moran wrote.

“Some students at Calvert House were definitely of the opinion that the way to show obedience to the Bishop was to stay at home and not go to Mass,” Duffy told LifeSiteNews......

[Dr. Sivana]

The Bishop does not have the authority to refuse the faithful the right to the Sacraments. I WENT to the U of C. The small chapel Calvert House wasn’t so great, but St. Thomas the Apostle on 55th isn’t so bad. Now there is a traditional Catholic Church run by the Institute of Christ the King on Woodlawn and S. 63rd. In fact, it is the North American headquarters. No such thing back in the ‘80s.