Quotes by Blase J. Cupich - Page 2

People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything.
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Catholic
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The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.
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Aspiration
Catholic
Catholic Church
Chicago
Enormous
Footprint
Good Society People
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Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need in our day to mine the church's social teaching on solidarity.
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Consistently
Solidarity
Applied
Cardinal
Ethic
Proposed
Unite
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Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.
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Connected
Greater
Greater Good
Possibility
Whole
Begin
Act
Creates
Lessen
Realize
Violently
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The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.
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Independence
Declaration
Hypocrisy
Noble
Proclamation
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Shadow
Life Happiness Independence
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The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.
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Action
Citizens
Deserve
Lip Service
Outrage
Poor
Protection
Real
Senior
Support
Workers
Nation
Solid
Senior Citizens
Service
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There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.
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Shortcuts
Temptation
Time Effort People
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We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.
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Distress
Repeatedly
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We are a people unafraid to welcome 'your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth.
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Birth
Circumstances
Unafraid
Welcome
Hopes
Masses
Measure
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Realities are greater than ideas. Because sometimes ideas can separate us unnecessarily. So let's attend to the realities that we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. That's what I want to do.
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Day To Day
Attend
Realities
Unnecessarily
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The long arc of history that recounts the Catholic Church's embrace of people of all faiths and none in providing health, education, and welfare in society is as incontestable as it is impressive.
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Catholic
Embrace
Providing
Welfare
Arc
Faiths
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In the 40 years that I've been a priest and the 17 as a bishop, I have experienced people coming at things in a different way. That's the way adults are, that's the way the world is, and that's OK.
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World People Way
Bishop
Experienced
Priest
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Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.
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Goodness
Faith Believe People
Christians
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Abortion is a searing and divisive public policy issue precisely because two significant sets of rights are in conflict, and no matter which set of laws it enacts, society must choose between those rights.
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Abortion
Conflict
Public Policy
Significant
Divisive
Precisely
Sets
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There is a synergy between the way Croatians approach life and the way Jesuits do. Croatians are very real about situations. We don't gloss over things. If there are issues to deal with, you deal with them.
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Gloss
Synergy
Life Way Real
Jesuits
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People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes and sometimes not in others, and that opens the door for them to go elsewhere.
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Catholic
Elsewhere
Spiritual Life
Life People Way
Opens
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I always tell myself... that the faith I have is a gift, so I shouldn't take that for granted. And so when people are struggling and feel they have no faith at all, I shouldn't say, 'Well, it's their fault.'
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Granted
Struggling
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For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
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Essence
Generations
Officials
Political Life
Public Officials
Slavery
Distorted
Discriminatory
Foremost
Preserve
Segregated
Social System
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If we create a framework for decision-making that is biased toward life, supportive of families, and fair to people of all circumstances, our policies, legislation, and commercial decisions will be vastly different.
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Biased
Circumstances
Decision Making
Framework
Legislation
Supportive
Life People Will
Policies
Vastly
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I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.
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Catholic
Catholic School
Sacrifice
Taxes
Tuition
Twice
Commend
Education Children Parents
Paying
Sending
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We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.
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Conversion
Grace
Mercy
Salvation
God Work Believe
Trigger
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The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.
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Boundaries
Buckets
Dump
Embrace
Generous
Ice
New Ways
American People
Astonish
Relating
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I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this principle to the morality of defending both convicted criminals and the lives of the unborn.
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Assertion
Human Life
Inherent
Morality
Unborn
Life Believe I Believe
Life Believe Value
Convicted
Defending
Inalienable
Principle
Strengthened
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I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.
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Our Time
Preaching
Sensitive
Something New
God Time Power
Reveal
Uses
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Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.
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Church
Discernment
Greater
Ongoing
Schooling
Creates
God Freedom Time
Produces
Responsive
Same Time
Throughout
Ways
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
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Environmental
Heal
Pollution
Survival
Youth
Calamities
Displaced
Question
Spirits
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Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.
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Competence
Governance
Revealing
Seeking
Episcopal
Involves
Make Up
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Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
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Feel Good
Openness
Respectful
Good People Feel
Good Feel Good People
Antagonistic
Unnecessarily
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The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
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Death
Death Penalty
Dignity
Erase
Guilty
Human Beings
Monstrous
Sacred
Life Death Human
Beings
Condemned
Crimes
Intrinsic
Penalty
Question
Truly
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Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
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Legal
Deserve
Dilemma
Human Life
Moral
Position
Protection
Certainly
Chooses
Denying
Escape
Fundamentally
Issue
Question
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We're not a Church of preservation but rather a Church of proclamation. To achieve this end, we must be open to significant, if not revolutionary, changes in how the Archdiocese with its parishes and ministries is organized, how it's resourced, how it's staffed.
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Organized
Preservation
Proclamation
Revolutionary
Significant
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Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate's support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian.
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Abortion
Voting
Candidate
Incompatible
Indeed
Intrinsic
Promote
Sinful
Solely
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Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.
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Matthew
Pointing
Pope
Sinner
Speechless
Experienced
Francis
Gaze
Rush
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Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.
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Distortion
Pregnant
Pro Life
Unborn
Advocate
Equally
Pro-Choice
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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Catholic
Catholic Church
Immigrants
Nothing New
Venture
Immigrant
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I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
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Bible
Dissertation
Mass
Context
Readings
Text
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My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.
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Initiative
Circumstance
Paralyze
Passed
Practical
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I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
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Chicago
Philosopher
Rooted
In-Depth
Paul
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I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.
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Labor
Work Business Together
Churches
Civic
Foundations
Partner
Work Together
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Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.
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Developing
Passing
Preaching
Sensitivity
God Faith World
Educating
Equally
Presence
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We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.
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African American
Damage
Generations
Risen
Enslaved
Future Generations
Impacted
Nobly
Owned
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