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We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything. Blase J. Cupich

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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. Blase J. Cupich

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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. Blase J. Cupich

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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. Blase J. Cupich

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Getting to know people as they are is very, very important. Blase J. Cupich

People Important Know Very Getting

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. Blase J. Cupich

Education School Parents Sacrifice Catholic Catholic School Because Making Commend Child Sending Tuition Children Taxes Paying Who Twice

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it. Blase J. Cupich

Change Political Become Like Involved Political Process Process

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. Blase J. Cupich

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot. Blase J. Cupich

Time People Take Learn Lot

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. Blase J. Cupich

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We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another. Blase J. Cupich

War Military Society Our Weapons Supposed Another Need

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated. Blase J. Cupich

Suffering People Build Solidarity Folks Excluded Know Integrated Want

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. Blase J. Cupich

Achieve Church Changes Significant Must Rather Open How End Revolutionary Proclamation Organized Preservation

The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue. Blase J. Cupich

Church Dialogue Lacks Fully

As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity. Bo Sanchez

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Open yourself to extreme, excessive, extravagant grace. Bo Sanchez

Yourself Grace Extravagant Extreme Excessive Open

Grace happens every day. Bo Sanchez

Day Every Day Grace Every Happens

I came to know God when I was 12, started working in the ministry when I was 13, working in the slum area, living among the poor, loving it, and having this belief that to love the poor I needed to be poor. Bo Sanchez

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There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts of things, and 50% would be about money like, 'How can I pay for the tuition fee of my kids?' And I could only pray for them. I had no advice to give them because I didn't know anything about money. Bo Sanchez

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