Quotes from Blase J. Cupich

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.

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.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.

Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.