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As an Illinois Catholic, I can confidently tell you that you overestimate Archbishop Cupich. If the Islamolunatics blow up his cathedral while he is saying Mass and he survives, he will call a press conference to demand "understanding" for the poor oppressed Islamolunatics who were only expressing themselves by blowing up the cathedral and trying to kill them. He will then go on a grand falafel luncheon tour of as many parishes as he can to drive the point home. At the next meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Biahops, he will ask them to create a committee to consider whether Caatholics should become Muslims.

Cupich would regard all of the above as far preferable to allowing his priests to lead an actual Catholic revival or to defend marriage as between one man and one woman for life or to effectively lead pro-life activities as priests. Cupich is the enemy within the Church, a new Bernardin, a "religious" treasonweasel with iittle enthusiasm for actual religion.

Can I say anything nice about Cupich? Sure. He will turn 67 on March 19, 2016 and must, by Vatican rules, submit his resignation to a hopefully actual Catholic pope on March 19, 2024. Eight more years of suffering for Illinois Catholics and particularly those in the Chicago Archdiocese.

Cupich has set a goal this week of closing 1 out of every three parishes in his Archdiocese by 2030 (though he won't be there that long). This is the leftist solution to the priest shortage. It means shrink the Church to death so long as the mindless leftist upper middle class booboisie can "feel" that they and their priorities are in charge. The conservative solution is for diocesan bishops to assert a robust and uncompromising Catholic orthodoxy which attracts the best young men to the priesthood in larger numbers more than adequate to replace retiring clergy.

If we are fortunate, a new pope would be elected ASAP, create a new curial congregation on changing toilet paper rolls in Vatican porta johns and tell Cupich to accept its chairmanship and leave Chicago or be retired by papal decree.