Posted on 03/05/2025 4:55:55 PM PST by ebb tide
Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich is under fire for attending an annual Muslim-Catholic “Iftar” dinner.
“Happy to be at the … Muslim-Catholic Iftar in Morton Grove tonight to break the daily fast observed by our Muslims brothers and sisters during Ramadan,” Cupich said on X yesterday.
Cupich is one of the most liberal members of the clergy in the United States. He has attended multiple Iftar dinners in the past, dating to at least 2016. His praise for Muslims comes as New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has also been receiving blowback for equating Lent to “Catholic Ramadan” this week.
Cupich’s X post was “ratioed” by Catholics on the site. What that means is that more users responded critically to it than supported or “liked” it.
“Would you please become Catholic?” one user seemingly fed up with his repeated dissidence asked.
“Muslim traditions: cool man! Catholic tradition: end it, very dangerous,” said another, who was seemingly drawing attention to Cupich’s hostility to receiving Communion on the tongue while kneeling.
Former LifeSite journalist Hilary White also weighed in.
“Repent and go to the press and tell them everything you know about the actions and functioning of the criminal McCarrick cult,” she said. “Then you need to resign and go spend the remainder of your days sweeping the stairs in whatever monastery you can convince to take you.”
This year’s event, organized by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOCG), was the 26th annual Muslim-Catholic Iftar. Cupich’s predecessor, Cardinal Francis George, also attended the dinners before his death in 2015.
Dolan has also made laudatory comments about Ramadan, which he called a “season of penance.”
“Ash Wednesday is coming Wednesday, and that’s kind of our Catholic Ramadan, so let’s unite with our Islamic brothers and sisters in prayer and fasting,” he said.
The Vatican’s in-house news outlet Vatican News likewise described Ramadan as “a time of prayer and reconciliation for the good of Creation.”
Ramadan is a holy month in Islam during which adherents are called upon to abstain from food and drink from dawn until dusk, at which point they partake in an “Iftar” meal.
Unlike Catholic Lenten fasting, Ramadan often includes Muslims indulging in exorbitant Iftar meals and sumptuous morning breakfasts.
As previously reported by LifeSite, Christian fasting practices, which were downplayed in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), predate Ramadan, which began in 662 AD. Christians have also fasted since Apostolic times. The 40-day Lenten fast was fixed by the year 400 AD and has never included, as does Ramadan, nightly feasting and a predawn meal.
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Ping
Cowards.
Begging to be conquered.
> Cardinal Cupich praises Muslim ‘brothers and sisters’ <
And Neville Chamberlain thought he could work with Hitler. We all know how that turned out.
Side note to Cardinal Cupich: There is a huge mosque in Rome. Perhaps you can ask your Muslim brothers and sisters why there is not a single Catholic Church in all of Saudi Arabia.
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What on earth are the qualifications for becoming a cardinal?
Rhetorical question…I know the answer is “nothing.”
LMAO, unfortunately while having a nice glass of Chardonnay.
I could understand a Catholic clergyman getting together with Muslims for discussions, maybe having a nice dinner, but not, as in NOT, on Ramadan.
These assholes need to convert to Islam or STFU. There is no effing Islam in the Bible except that you shouldn’t worship false gods. Faggots.
Ahhh, the Fruits of Vatican II ongoing....
Are there any Muslim leaders who maintain that Ramadan is a Muslim Lent? I am guessing that they would say the only things Ramadan and Lent have in common is that they are both fasts and they happen at roughly the same time of year, but they are observed in vastly different ways for vastly different reasons. That would mean they have a respect for the integrity of the faith they represent that Cardinals Dolan and Cupich do not.
Under Pope Francis, one must be a pro-homo, pro-illegals, pro-holy communion for adulterers and aborting politicians and finally anti-Trump.
All of the U.S. bishops who have been elevated by Francis to his college of cardinals check-off on all of the above:
Cardinal Cupich
Cardinal Joseph Tobin
Cardinal Gregory
and Cardinal McElroy
I’ve read different times that the Church of Rome and Islam will merge in the end times as a result of their exaltation of Mary.
I don’t believe you; unless you’ve been reading Jack Chick comic books.
Yeah, right.
What a hypocrite:
After 60 years, that's been very obvious:
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit [Matthew 7:17]
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The Moslems, “professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who at the last day will judge mankind” (Lumen Gentium 16). Though the Islamic faith does not acknowledge Jesus as God, it does revere Him as prophet, and also honors His virgin mother. Moslems “prize the moral life, and give worship to God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting” (Nostra Aetate 3). Noting that there had been many quarrels and hostilities between Christians and Muslims, the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) urged that all “forget the past and strive sincerely for mutual understanding, and, on the behalf of all mankind, make common cause of safeguarding and fostering social justice, moral values, peace, and freedom” (Nostra Aetate 3).
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