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Blase J. Cupich
Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
Born: Mar 19, 1949
Church Life People Society Think Who
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them. Blase J. Cupich
Democracy Leaders Because Get Them Elect Deserve
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? Blase J. Cupich
Life Death Dignity Crimes Monstrous Penalty Those Guilty Penetrating Intrinsic Moral Sacred Condemned Erase Death Penalty Truly Question Human Human Beings Us Who Beings Even Right
I am never bored in my ministry because I continually see the impact of God in people's lives. Blase J. Cupich
God People Ministry Bored See Impact Never Because Am Continually Lives
The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that. Blase J. Cupich
Good Challenges Humble Challenge Church Be Humble Society Enough Able Also Accept Should
We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream. Blase J. Cupich
People Money Year Every Society Our Bit Enter Dream Part Budget Trying American Quite Quite A Bit American Dream Order Who Assist Here
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. Blase J. Cupich
You Bible Together Dissertation Out Taken Put Mass New Readings How Context Been Text Texts Did Form Meaning Use Original Now
Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured. Blase J. Cupich
Values Tolerance Our Nurtured Respected Must Schools Taught Where Places
I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration. Blase J. Cupich
People Every Difficulties Way Say Administration Would One-Way Had Another Within His Pope Who
We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them. Blase J. Cupich
Saying Conversation Respect People Value Respected All People Make Sure Always Wanted Them Should Lives Start
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. Blase J. Cupich
Nature People Relating Our Astonish Ways Sign Ourselves Embrace Push Open Buckets Environment Generous Boundaries New Dump American New Ways Ice Capacity American People
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. Blase J. Cupich
Life People Will Our Framework Circumstances Vastly Toward Supportive Fair Biased Policies Commercial Families Legislation Different Decision-Making Decisions Create
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. Blase J. Cupich
History Church Country Nation Beginning Nothing Immigrant Immigrants New Venture Catholic Catholic Church Because Always Been Very Done The History Of Us Nothing New Help Who
Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens. Blase J. Cupich
People Christ Mercy Because Happens Conversion Receives
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. Blase J. Cupich
God Time Try Language Christ Power Preaching Our Our Time About Something Something New Excited New Because Reveal Always Doing Sensitive Uses Why
I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed. Blase J. Cupich
Trust Every Think Bishop Pope Appointed
Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago. Blase J. Cupich
Racism Church Sin Chicago Place Including
Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges. Blase J. Cupich
Rights Some Having Privileges Form Which Viewed Special Elitism
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. Blase J. Cupich
Education Health History People Welfare Church Long Society Embrace Arc Catholic None Faiths Providing Impressive
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. Blase J. Cupich
Love Me Painting Speechless Gaze Francis Telling Tells Rush Pointing He Lord His Sinner Wonder Matthew Same Experienced Turned Us Pope Who Whom Here
The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life. Blase J. Cupich
Life Value Responsibility Every State Only Sacredness Leaders Also Vested Vested Interest Human Interest Human Life Defending
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. Blase J. Cupich
Life Political Our System Distorted Segregated Generations Goal Foremost Political Life Discriminatory Officials Essence Influence Form Public Social Public Officials Social System Whose Slavery Preserve
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. Blase J. Cupich
Abortion Voting Behavior Evil Christian Indeed Solely Intrinsic Promote Support Sinful Him Because His Candidate Being Against Race Incompatible Her Basis
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. Blase J. Cupich
Future Tired Welcome Quality People Birth Others Circumstances Unafraid Hopes Masses Because Poor Your Measure
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. Blase J. Cupich
History People Financial Rich Other Our Ways Distress Economic Throughout Learned Material Repeatedly Us Help Who Even Appreciate
Our people's faith is strong and sustains them even in times of challenge. Blase J. Cupich
Faith People Strong Challenge Our Times Sustains Them Even
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. Blase J. Cupich
Life Day Church Our Mine Consistently Solidarity Proposed Issues Just Social Ethic Teaching Unite Cardinal Applied Need
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