Archbishop Cupich appointed to Vatican’s congregation for bishops [CNA]

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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/i...redit_Joshua_Lott_Getty_Images_CNA.jpgVatican City, Jul 7, 2016 / 06:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision to nominate Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago as a new member of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.

The Pope’s appointment of Archbishop Cupich to the Vatican department was announced in a July 7 communique from the Vatican.

The Congregation of Bishops, currently headed by Cardinal Marc Oullet, is responsible for what pertains to the “establishment and provision of particular Churches and to the exercise of the episcopal office in the Latin Church” – primarily, overseeing the process of selecting and appointing bishops.

Cupich’s nomination to the congregation comes just two years after he was tapped to lead the Archdiocese of Chicago. He was appointed as Archbishop of Chicago by Pope Francis Sept. 20, 2015, replacing Cardinal Francis George.

He was also among the 45 bishops appointed by Pope Francis to participate in the 2015 Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family.

Born in Omaha, Neb. In 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and studied at the College of St. Thomas in Minnesota as well as the Pontifical College of North America in Rome. In 1998, he was named bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, and in 2010, he was named bishop of Spokane. He took over for Cardinal George in Chicago in 2014, due to the cardinal’s failing health.

In December 2013, nine months after his election to the papacy, Pope Francis made significant changes in the congregation’s membership, appointing several new members and confirming others in the roles they already held.

Among those appointed at that time was Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who also serves on several pontifical councils, as well as committees of U.S. bishops. He served as relator general for the October 2012 Vatican Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization, and was also among those tapped by Francis to participate in the 2015 Synod of Bishops.

Other members of the Congregation appointed by Pope Francis in 2013 include: Cardinals Francisco Robles Ortega; Ruben Salazar Gomez; Kurt Koch; and João Braz de Aviz; as well as Archbishops Pietro Parolin; Beniamino Stella; Lorenzo Baldisseri; Vincent Nichols; Paolo Rabitti; and Bishop Felix Genn.

Those whose membership he confirmed were: Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone, Zenon Grocholewski, George Pell, Agostino Vallini, Antonio Cañizares Llovera, André Vingt-Trois, Jean-Louis Tauran, William Levada, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Leonardo Sandri, Giovanni Lajolo, Stanislaw Rylko, Francesco Monterisi, Santos Abril y Castelló, Giuseppe Bertello, and Giuseppe Versaldi as well as Archbishops Claudio Maria Celli, José Octavio Ruiz Arenas and Zygmunt Zimowski.

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May God bless and guide him in carrying out his new responsibilities.
 
From what I hear from news sources and friends in Chicago, Archbishop Cupich is very pastoral as well as strong on social justice concerns - gun control and the LGBT community of late. This will impact the sort of Bishops being selected, yes? I see from the list that Cardinal Nichols from the UK has also been appointed. He is quite kindred to Archbishop Cupich in his personality and concerns. He and the Archbishop of Canterbury are good friends and often do events together.

It says something about Pope Francis and the kind of Church he wants to build for the future. I am a big fan of his and hope that this kind of action will continue.
 
DaddyGirl said:
Is this advisory panel a very important post?
I like this Bishop Cupich!
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According to my politically active RC friends, yes, it is a very important panel. It basically names the men who are to be Bishops and where they go. The leadership positions are key, and by taking three very conservative Americans OFF the panel (Levada, Burke, and Rigali) and and naming a very progressive and social justice Bishop to replace them, it says quite a bit.

And DG, I like him very much too.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
According to my politically active RC friends, yes, it is a very important panel. It basically names the men who are to be Bishops and where they go. The leadership positions are key, and by taking three very conservative Americans OFF the panel (Levada, Burke, and Rigali) and and naming a very progressive and social justice Bishop to replace them, it says quite a bit.
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Social justice is not opposed to being conservative. Now progressive is another matter. In Cupich’s case, he gets it wrong with regard to an individual’s conscience and objective moral truth as evidenced by some of his interviews with the media and his subsequent correction by a brother bishop on the matter. He also is not so friendly to the pro-life movement admonishing his priests while in Spokane to not participate in a 40 Days for Life rally. And many, many more issues like this.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
According to my politically active RC friends, yes, it is a very important panel. It basically names the men who are to be Bishops and where they go. The leadership positions are key, and by taking three very conservative Americans OFF the panel (Levada, Burke, and Rigali) and and naming a very progressive and social justice Bishop to replace them, it says quite a bit.

And DG, I like him very much too.
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The Congregation narrows down the list and makes a recommendation to the Pope. The process starts locally. With (name removed by moderator)ut from the local bishops / clergy, the Nuncio submits a terna of three names and it is typically from that list that the Congregation makes its pick…though they’re not bound by it.
 
RPRPsych said:
Do I hear an echo over here? 🙂
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You’re taking all this rather well. 🙂

It’s interesting that while reporting this on the local news here yesterday, the only question reporters had was whether the Archbishop expected to be promoted to Cardinal soon. To his credit, I must say he seemed to have been irritated by the question. He didn’t smile, anyway.
 
DaddyGirl said:
WHY sad and unfortunate?
Is he not a good Archbishop?

He seems very well-educated, smart, and experienced.
And he’s big on “the ethic of life”.

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You didn’t Post #9? Also, while bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, Cupich locked the doors of one of his parishes during the Easter Triduum to prevent the parish from celebrating the traditional Latin Mass. Really!?
 
DaddyGirl said:
The incident in 2002?
He seemed to have an honorable motive for his actions, as per below.
Is this one incident one of the main reasons many here do not think he’s a good Archbishop?
I don’t think, tho, that he actually, physically “locked the doors” on anyone. Do you have a factually-reliable news clip that says this?

rapidcityjournal.com/bishop-bans-latin-services/article_b37a5c37-b5a4-5af6-8014-48d9f5ef9da7.html

Dan Carda, 58, of Piedmont, said. Carda is a Latin Mass adherent who refuses to participate in the new-order English-language Mass that was mandated by the Second Vatican Council.
Instead, Carda and some of the other 220 members of St. Michael’s congregation will gather at 3 p.m. today for Good Friday services on the sidewalk in front of the church.
Cupich sees his decision to not allow Good Friday Latin services at ICC as an invitation to unity, not a denial.

"We’re just looking for an opportunity on an annual basis for us to all worship together, for one moment of unity as a Catholic church,"Cupich said.
“I’m looking for one time each year to do that, and it seems the day the Lord died for us all would be a good day to do it. That’s all that this is about.”

He said he would like the Latin Mass community to recognize unity with the wider Catholic church.
“There has to be some occasion on a yearly basis to reflect the fact that we are one church under one bishop,” Cupich said.
“I would ask them, ‘Why do they find it so difficult, on the day of the Lord’s death, to celebrate with their bishop, who is the sign of the Lord’s unity?’”

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It does bring up the philosophical question about whether this so-called unity can be forced. Maybe you can, but you’re going to have a few people leaving with a bad taste in their mouths. Been there.
 
Seamus_L said:
Archbishop Cupich also appears to support practicing homosexuals and remarried couples receiving communion chicagotribune.com/news/ct-cupich-communion-divorced-remarried-catholics-20151016-story.html.
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Which is one reason so many people like him… I think he is a good balance, though, to Archbishop Chaput. It is interesting to see two prominent church leaders who have very different understandings.I think it’s actually a good thing to see how your church can have this spectrum of leadership.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
Which is one reason so many people like him… I think he is a good balance, though, to Archbishop Chaput. It is interesting to see two prominent church leaders who have very different understandings.I think it’s actually a good thing to see how your church can have this spectrum of leadership.
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Yet, what if the spectrum is so wide as to embrace both truth and error… This was the concern of many bishops at the synod where a Catholic can be in line with Church teaching in one diocese, then cross over into another diocese and be out-of-bounds. Truth is not a function of geography.
 
irenaeus1 said:
Yet, what if the spectrum is so wide as to embrace both truth and error… This was the concern of many bishops at the synod where a Catholic can be in line with Church teaching in one diocese, then cross over into another diocese and be out-of-bounds. Truth is not a function of geography.
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Excellent point.
 
irenaeus1 said:
Yet, what if the spectrum is so wide as to embrace both truth and error… This was the concern of many bishops at the synod where a Catholic can be in line with Church teaching in one diocese, then cross over into another diocese and be out-of-bounds. Truth is not a function of geography.
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But there has always been disagreements on interpretation of church teachings, as well as praxis. I see that parish to parish where I live. And obviously the Bishops are in disagreement. How would you deal with it? The Bishops are in charge of their own Dioceses, are they not?

And since the Pope chose Archbishop Cupich to be on the panel to choose other Bishops, it seems to me that Cupich is more in line with the Pope’s own thinking.

I am not Roman Catholic so I don’t fully understand your political system, but as an outsider, it seems to me that people (or rather church leaders) disagree. It’s the reality of any organization. And now, Pope Francis is bringing in people who will lead in ways that are important to him.
 
Wasn’t he the one that forbade priests from participating in 40 days for life when he was in either Washington or Oregon?

This is a scary appointment…
 
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