Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Poll: Cupich ‘Worst’ Bishop in the US

by William Mahoney, Ph.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • June 19, 2019

Survey results include many disparaging comments

CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A recent survey ranks Cardinal Blase Cupich the worst bishop in the United States.
On Tuesday, Complicit Clergy published the results of a survey on the trustworthiness and orthodoxy of individual U.S. bishops.
Participants were invited to rate their bishops with one ("Mostly Distrust") to five ("Completely Trust") stars for trustworthiness and one to five stars for orthodoxy (adherence to the teachings of the Catholic Church) with an option to comment.
Cupich was ranked the worst bishop in the country and received 67 comments, none of which were positive.

It's way beyond the point of simple distrust. I sincerely believe that Cupich is an evil man, an enemy of Christ and His Church.Tweet

Comments mainly mentioned Cupich's heterodoxy, dishonesty, support for homosexuality and homosexual predators and his connection to Pope Francis.
There were also comments about the survey not permitting a lower rank and many calls for Cupich's repentance and/or resignation:
Cupich's heterodoxy:

"A man who seems to have had his faith withdrawn from him if he ever had it in the first place."
"Cardinal Blasé Cupich has no respect for the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church!"
"He is not Catholic. He is evil. He works to destroy the Truth."
"He is part of the McCarrick gang and should be laicized for teaching heresy."
"He undermines the faith in every way possible. Horrible shepherd."
"Heretical, pederast, acolyte Of [sic] Baphomet."
"It's way beyond the point of simple distrust. I sincerely believe that Card. Cupich is an evil man, an enemy of Christ and His Church."
"I've stopped my donations based on his heresy."
"Sometimes, I wonder why Cupich is a member of the clergy at all. He does not uphold the teachings of the Church and does not work to draw people to the True, the Good and the Beautiful."
"When speaking, this Cardinal never even mentions Our Lord, sacraments, devotions, Church teaching--nothing distinctly Catholic or even Christian!"

Cupich's dishonesty:

"Complete HYPOCRITE. Money grubbing, liar."
"He teaches heresy and he is not honest."
"He's a lying piece of **** who protects predators and persecutes the faithful."
"He quiets dissenters and is an ideological bully."
"Lies lies lies coming out of his mouth. He should be stripped of his priesthood."
"Money grubbing, McCarrick supporter. False prophet."
"Bears false witness."

Cupich's support for homosexuality and homosexual predators:

"He does not seem to support all teachings of the Catholic Church, especially those concerned with pro-life issues like abortion. Additionally, he seems to support & defend homosexuals in the Church."
"He completely supports the gay agenda."
"He is a believer in situation ethics, allows practices such as communion for the remarried, and homosexual and cohabiting couples."
"He is of the homo heresy! He has covered for pedophile priests."
"How could anyone trust a bishop who invited the Jesuit Martin to speak?"
"He's a homosexual. He's never said the Latin mass."
"Favors gays too much."

Cupich's connection to Pope Francis:

"A modernist who believes and supports a pope who is a heretic."
"He is Francis' man carrying out the agenda of changing the Church (even more than it has already been changed)."
"Puppet of Francis the Confuser."
"The leader of the cover-up of systematic rape and sex trafficking in the U.S., hand-picked for that purpose by Francis himself."

A desire to rank Cupich lower:

"Wouldn't have given him 1 star but was required to select something."
"He doesn't deserve any stars."
"I can't even justify giving Cardinal Cupich a star at all."
"I should be allowed to leave the stars at zero. One star is far too many to express my personal opinion of Cupich's lack of orthodoxy."
"I would prefer to give him no stars"
"Is there an option for no stars?"
"No stars, if it were permitted."
"One star only because it won't accept 0 stars."

Many calls for Cupich's repentance or resignation:

"BISHOP CUPICH AND ALL OF THOSE PRIESTS AND BISHOPS ERODING THE CHURCH, NEED TO CONVERT OR BE REMOVED."
"Cardinal Cupich needs to step down!"
"Save souls, oust him!"
"He needs to become Catholic or resign and be laicized."
"He should resign immediately"
"Needs to resign"
"Personally, I think he should resign."

One comment summarized most of these points: "One of the worst. A clone of Francis. Heterodox. Homosexualist. Dishonest. Vindictive. Anti-life. Money-grubber. Arrogant. Effeminate. Wrecker."
There were also comments regarding Cupich's treatment of Fr. Paul Kalchik, a Chicago priest who has gone into hiding to escape Cupich's punishment:

"Bishop Cupich has threatened a priest who is now disappeared because he called attention to a flag of homosexuals placed upon the cross at the altar….Blasé Cupich protects homosexuality and should go."
"...ridiculous handling of Fr. Kahlchick [sic]."
"What pushed me to question Card. Cupich was the way he and his office handled and spun the removal of our long time pastor, Fr. Frank Phillips, from St. John Cantius. Also the removal of Fr. Kalchik."

Church Militant spoke with Fr. Kalchik's brother, David J. Kalchik, who lives in New Orleans and works for the United States Department of the Navy as a project manager.
David hurled no insults or said anything negative; he merely expressed his inability to understand why a prince of the Church would act so contrary to the teachings of the Church.
"Why would Cupich support the LGBT agenda and oppose priests who were trying to teach the Bible and the Catholic faith?" he wondered.

He does all this in the name of God as a cardinal; this is pure evil.Tweet

Church Militant also spoke with Stephen Brady of Roman Catholic Faithful about the results of this survey.
"What really makes Cardinal Cupich the worst is the fact that he is the most prominent Cardinal because of his relationship with the Pope," he said.
"He shows that he has no faith by promoting distribution of the Eucharist to homosexual couples, the divorced and remarried and non-Catholics," Brady added.
Brady also noted that Cupich does not support the pro-life movement and seems to have a great dislike for the traditional Mass and traditional Catholics.
"He does all this in the name of God as a Cardinal; this is pure evil," he said.

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St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

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St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)