[ubipetrusest]

In this unbelievable op-ed piece, Archbishop Cupich of Chicago gives lip service to the horrendous revelations of videos released by the Center for Medical Progess (https://www.youtube.com/user/centerformedprogress). He claims that the swell of shock and outrage is due to a "visceral reaction" and then goes on to redirect people's efforts to those social justice issues (ever expanding) so dear to left-wing Catholics who wear the "seamless garment" tailored by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.

By claiming that unemployment, health care, immigration, and capital punishment are on a par with the butchery of unborn children and sale of their parts and organs for profit, Cupich negates the horror of these revelations. The US pro-life movement has not been taken in by such efforts to hijack its energies and commitment to the right to life as the foremost life issue.

Archbishop Cupich should hang his head in shame and apologize to the public for his asinine remarks.

The outrage expressed is not a "visceral reaction," but a "human reaction"--unlike Cupich's wooden response.

[Arthur McGowan]

Everything Cupich says logically requires saying: We should be no more appalled by 58 million abortions and the sale of babies’ bodies than by unemployment.

When Bernardin first introduced the “Seamless Garment,” he said we must be EQUALLY concerned about abortion and nuclear war, about abortion and cuts in social spending, etc. There was a firestorm, and he backed away from those statements. Cupich has gone all the way back to that position.

Cupich’s record for 20 years could hardly be worse, when it comes to persecuting real Catholics, and issuing mealy-mouthed statements on moral issues. In fact, mealy-mouthed is what Cupich is on a GOOD day.

Cupich was hand-picked by the Pope for Chicago. He has just been hand-picked by the Pope for the Synod.

By the fruit they hand-pick you shall know them.

[Arthur McGowan]

Most bishops do not think in the categories of moral theology, but politics.

When Cardinal Sean O’Malley was cornered by a Catholic jounalist at the National Shrine he was asked about Communion-for-Pelosi.

A real Catholic would say: Giving Communion to Nancy Pelosi is a cause of grave scandal. Therefore, it is a mortal sin to do it. Therefore, it is something that no priest or bishop can do, or pressure others to do.

O’Malley said: The bishops must not appear to be picking on one political party.

[Salvation]

**the muted humanity of the unborn child&&

Sorry, but the baby in the womb is a REAL human.

[RobbyS]

Cupich is an equivocator. The same sort of prelate who tried to turn Nazism in the direction of Christianity.