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[Catholic Caucus] The City of Big Shoulders — and Liturgical Confusion: Chicago Faithful Flummoxed by Inconsistent Liturgy PolicyNEWS ANALYSIS: The juxtaposition of laxity for liturgical abuses with forceful crackdowns of reverent worship well beyond Pope Francis’s recent directives calls into question Cardinal Blase Cupich’s stated prioritization of promoting unity and the reforms of Vatican II.CHICAGO — Perhaps no U.S. diocese has implemented Traditiones Custodes, Pope Francis’s motu proprio restricting what is commonly known as the traditional Latin Mass, as forcefully as the Archdiocese of Chicago. In fact, Cardinal Blase Cupich’s enactment of the decree has gone beyond what the text...

[Catholic Caucus] Priests: Cardinal Cupich visited diocese before Pope removed Puerto Rican bishopBishop Emeritus Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J., reportedly said that the Vatican ‘secretly’ dispatched Cardinal Cupich to investigate Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres. ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (LifeSiteNews) – Priests in the Puerto Rican Diocese of Arecibo say they were told that liberal Cardinal Blase Cupich made a secretive visit to their diocese last year and was involved in the recent dismissal of Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres.According to an investigation by Catholic news site ACI Prensa, the current apostolic administrator of the diocese informed clerics that Cupich, the scandal-plagued archbishop...

Fr. Michael Pfleger Endorses Pro-Abortion CandidateCV NEWS FEED // Fr. Michael Pfleger, who is something of a local celebrity in the Archdiocese of Chicago, is endorsing State Sen. Jacqueline Collins, D-Chicago, in the primary to replace Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.Collins announced her candidacy Friday, and while she is one of 17 Democrats contending for the 1st Congressional District seat, Pfleger’s endorsement places her in a prominent position among them.“Collins starts off in the top tier in a field with many strong contenders” thanks in part to the priest’s endorsement, the Chicago Sun Times reported:Collins has been connected to Pfleger —...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican liturgy chief: Latin Mass just a ‘pastoral concession’ not aligned with post-Vatican II ChurchArchbishop Roche described the Traditional Latin Mass as not being ‘the norm’ in the Church’s life and somehow out of step with the ‘mandate given to the entire Church by the Second Vatican Council.’ VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican’s liturgy chief, Archbishop Arthur Roche, has described the Traditional Latin Mass as being merely “a pastoral concession” granted by Pope Francis, suggesting it was not in line with the fundamental changes the Second Vatican Council introduced to the Catholic Church.In a recent interview with...

[Catholic Caucus] So It Begins: Chicago’s Fight for the Mass of the Ages So It Begins: Chicago’s Fight for the Mass of the Ages The following article was written by a laywoman from Midwestern America.Bagpipes sounded on State Street, and a truck with flashing images of the Mass of the Ages rolled by. We stood shoulder to shoulder or knelt on the sidewalk and prayed the Rosary with Holy Name Cathedral looming large behind us. Men held signs aloft for the traffic to read: “Cardinal Cupich: Why are you punishing faithful Catholics?” It was the First Sunday of February.Over...

[Catholic Caucus] 300 Catholics attend rosary rally in Chicago to protest Cdl. Cupich’s crackdown on Latin MassA movement to 'save the Latin Mass' and reverse the 'destructive new restrictions' on the traditional liturgy is gaining momentum. CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — Over 300 Chicago Catholics on Sunday protested Cardinal Blase Cupich’s crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass.The Catholics gathered to pray the rosary outside of Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral on February 6, the “commencement day” of Cupich’s ban on Traditional Latin Masses celebrated on the first Sunday of the month.“What have we done to deserve this punishment?” a man asked the crowd...

[Catholic Caucus] New of new cruelty in @archchicago from @CardinalBCupichA note from a reader…Since you have posted about Cardinal Cupich’s TLM restrictions, I thought you should know that permission for 3 parishes (St. Mary of Perpetual Help, St. John Vianney, and St. Odilo) have all been denied. The only other TLM that is offered in the archdiocese by a diocesan priest is the St James at Sag Bridge Mission. I do not know if they have been permitted to continue.This only leaves St John Cantius, St Peter’s (staffed by the Canons), and the Shrine of Christ the King.People are sad,...

Courageous Chicago Priest Challenges Cardinal Cupich’s Cancellation of Ad Orientem WorshipFr. Anthony Bus C.R., pastor of St. Stanislaus KostkaLetter to Bishop Robert Lombardo on “Ad Orientem” MassJanuary 13, 2022Dear Bishop Lombardo,Thank you for consulting the Archbishop regarding my request for permission to offer the Holy Sacrifice, “Ad Orientem.” I will comply with his directive that this is forbidden in his Archdiocese.Even so, the Archbishop does not provide evidence that “Ad Orientem” was abrogated at the Second Vatican Council. As I read Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Roman Missal the implication is “Ad Orientem” was not abolished or prohibited – on the...

Farewell to prayer to St. Michael the Archangel; Latin Mass wars heating upSince the late 19th Century, Catholics have recited the Prayer to St. Michael when facing disease, disaster and despair.It proclaims, in part: "St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. … O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls."Before Vatican II, this prayer was often recited after Mass, although it wasn't in the rubrics. In 1994, St. Pope John Paul II urged Catholics to embrace it...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic group protests Cardinal Cupich’s Latin Mass restrictions in ChicagoCHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Blase Cupich faced protests Saturday over his recent restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in Chicago.Protesters convened in front of Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral for a Rosary rally, organized by the Coalition for Canceled Priests, demanding an end to the cardinal’s crackdown on the traditional liturgy. Demonstrators held a banner addressed to Cupich and Pope Francis that read: “Stop the war on our timeless Faith.”The rally is part of a new campaign launched by the coalition, the Lepanto Institute, and Regina Magazine titled “Save...

Chicago Cardinal Heckled and Booed During Pro-Life RallyChicago Cardinal Blase Cupich was booed by a number of pro-life demonstrators at a Chicago rally Saturday for his alleged failure to oppose abortion more vigorously.Some of the protesters at Chicago’s March for Life carried green signs with white lettering that read “Cupich is the culture of death” and one video reproduced a tweet by the cardinal in which he insisted on the sanctity of life “from birth until natural death,” instead of “from conception.”According to a report by Carlos Esteban for infovaticana.com, Cardinal Cupich has tended to shy away from the pro-life...

[Catholic Caucus] There seems to be a spirit of discontent in Chicago these daysThere seems to be a spirit of discontent in Chicago these days, evidenced in Catholic news, what with the harsh diktats about the Vetus Ordo and the wild sacrilege at St. Sabina.It’s sad. Such a great city. So many problems.Today I received a note that Chicago’s Archbishop was booed and heckled at at pro-life rally. It’s hard to get your mind around that. On the other hand, he’s not exactly the poster boy for defense of the unborn, who seem in his school of thought to be...

Why the Coalition for Canceled Priests is fighting back against restrictions on the Latin Mass'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.' ~Winston Churchill Fri Dec 31, 2021 - 5:43 am ESTSat Jan 1, 2022 - 12:54 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) – Merry Christmas! The coal in the stockings keep right on coming, especially for those that live in the Chicagoland area. After Cardinal Cupich’s article in America magazine, The Coalition for Canceled Priests (CFCP) decided to expand its billboard campaign, “Not One More Penny,” to include the defense of the Traditional Latin Mass. At...

Dear Cardinal Cupich: At least obey the rubrics of the Novus Ordo Mass Dear Cardinal Cupich:I write to you as a Catholic priest on the feast of St. Thomas Becket, who is commemorated in the Octave of Christmas. St. Thomas Becket was certainly a complex man, but in the end—and the end is ultimately important to us all-- how he died so violently in the Cathedral at Canterbury at the hands of assassins driven to that terrible deed by King Henry II, made him a saint, not by a proclamation from Rome, but rather because of the “common” Catholics...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Blase Cupich publishes policy implementing Traditionis custodesShortly after the Congregation for Divine Worship responded to questions regarding Pope Francis' Motu propio, Cardinal Cupich implements a policy that goes into effect 25 January -- an opportunity to express the unity of the Church and to offer a 'concrete manifestation of the acceptance of the Council's teaching'.by Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fspJust two days after Christmas, on the Feast of St John the Evangelist, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, has issued a policy governing the celebration of the pre-Vatican rites in that Archdiocese. This policy follows the 18 December...

[Catholic Caucus] Dear Cardinal Cupich: The implementation of Traditionis Custodes in the Archdiocese of Chicago Dear Cardinal Cupich:I read, with obvious interest as a Catholic priest, your recent letter outlining how you propose to implement in your Archdiocese of Chicago Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. In your letter you seem to have espoused a less than critical-- that term not in a negative sense—understanding of the latest Motu Proprio. It seems like almost a puppet like reaction that shows no attempt to analyze, in a serious way, how the Motu Proprio relates to the reality of the liturgical...

[Catholic Caucus] An Unwanted “Gift” from Cardinal Cupich The blog PrayTell has recently published an article from Blase Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, in which His Eminence makes some rather strange and bizarre claims in order to justify what he sees as the "The Gift of Traditionis Custodes". Firstly, the Cardinal makes the following rather odd analogy:In 1983, Pope John Paul II reformed the Code of Canon Law of 1917, in order to insure that Church Law conformed to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. Likewise, the saintly pope in 1993 [sic] reformed the Catechism of the Catholic...

Cardinal Cupich joins Muslim, Christian leaders for panel on dialogueChristians, Muslims and all people of faith must work together to follow the example of Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar, and Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Islamic leaders from the Sunni and Shia traditions.That was the conclusion of Cardinal Cupich, two Muslim leaders and a leader of the Assyrian Church of the East, who participated in an online panel Sept. 27.The panel was sponsored by Georgetown University’s Office of the President, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World...

Chicago’s Dark ‘Saint’ — Bernardin!Not a faithful man worthy of venerationYour browser does not support the video tag. Special Report: Bernardin: Homosexual Predator Satanist Pakaluk, in his well-researched rebuttal, debunks Bernardin's seamless garment lecture. In the section titled "A Philosophy of Feelings," Pakaluk makes this poignant observation on Bernardin's seamless garment metaphor:From the start, the theory proved itself pedagogically unsound. A metaphor should make a teaching easier to understand, not easier to misunderstand, but the seamless garment metaphor was only confusing people. "If the garment is seamless," people wondered, "then the various issues that are linked are of equal importance...

Cardinal Sit-It-Out CupichWhen I read the comments by Fr. Brandt, after he gave the Eucharist to Lori Lightfoot, that Cardinal Cupich tapped him at the last minute and said he was “going to sit this one out”, I didn’t find it shocking at all. It’s one of the hallmarks of his episcopacy. I fully expect Father Brandt will have to put out some sort of retraction, because Cardinal Cupich is a tyrannical narcissist and persecuting his priests and seminarians is LITERALLY the only skill at which he excels. Upholding Catholicism? Not so much. I have no idea why they chose...