Cupich's Creed: “I do not believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.”
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds.
After criticism from faithful bishops, Cupich is doubling down on honoring Sen. Dick Durbin, who has supported partial-birth abortion and LGBT ideology.
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the Church: but if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a Publican.

“He who possesses my words yet spurns them earns his own judgement on the last day” Imitation of Christ.
Titus 3:10-11 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid: Knowing that he, that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.
Luke 10: 16. He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Obstinacy in rejecting Revealed Truth
According to the tradition dating back to St. Augustine (30), this obstinacy constitutes—an essential characteristic of heresy. “will to resist the Catholic doctrine or the Church that teaches it”
CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA. Whereby He teaches, that whatever is said by the holy Apostles must be received, since he who heareth them heareth Christ, and an inevitable punishment therefore hangs over heretics who neglect the words of the Apostles; for it follows, and he who despises you despises me.
Canon 188§4 states: "All offices shall be vacant ipso facto, by tacit resignation in the following cases… (4) If a cleric has publicly lapsed from the Catholic Faith."
Cardinal Caffarra: “We are no longer witnesses, but deserters, if we do not speak openly and publicly”
During the last week, ten bishops have publicly rebuked Blase Cupich.
· Bishop Thomas Paprocki (Springfield): the decision “risks causing grave scandal.”
· Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (San Francisco): “This is a source of great consternation and scandal.”
· Bishop James Conley (Lincoln): “deeply disappointing and confusing.”
· Bishop James Wall (Gallup): “creates confusion and division.”
· Bishop David Ricken (Green Bay): “a grave mistake.”
· Bishop Carl Kemme (Wichita): “This award is inappropriate and scandalous.”
· Bishop Michael Olson (Fort Worth): “sends the wrong message to the faithful.”
#10: Archbishop Naumann Accuses Blase Cupich of ‘Pastoral Neglect’ and “scandal” for Honoring radical pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Democrat senator
Phil Lawler: If Cardinal Cupich cannot explain the Church’s teaching on the dignity of human life, he should not be a metropolitan archbishop. (And as a matter of fact, since he is over the age of 75, his resignation should already be on the Pope’s desk.)
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John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
AUGUSTINE.e I ask then how we shall understand this, I will not judge, but the word which I have spoken will judge? Yet He Himself is the Word of the Father which speaketh. Is it thus? I will not judge by My human power, as the Son of man, but as the word of God, because I am the Son of God. (Catena Aurea)
"He who possesses my words yet spurns them earns his own judgement on the last day" (The Imitation of Christ, 3.3) is a paraphrase of a verse spoken by Jesus Christ in the Bible, found in John 12:48. In this passage, Jesus explains that those who reject His teachings and do not accept His words will be judged by those same words on the final day.
«Write my words in your heart and study them diligently, for they will be absolutely necessary in the time of temptation. Whatever you fail to understand in reading my words will become clear to you on the day of your visitation.
He who possesses my words yet spurns them earns his own judgment on the last day (The Imitation of Christ, 3.3).
JEROME. That He says, As a heathen and a publican, shews that he is to be more abhorred, who under the name of a believer does the deeds of an unbeliever, than those that are openly gentiles. Those He calls publicans, who pursue worldly gain, and levy contributions by trading, cheating, and villainous frauds, and perjuries.
Cupich defies and contradicts divine natural law. He attacks the Deposit of Faith.
— The text of the «Profession of Faith and the Oath of fidelity when assuming an office to be exercised in the name of the Church», published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on January 9, 1989 (AAS 81 [1989] 104-106).
"I also firmly accept and hold each and everything definitively proposed by the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals."
Canon 598 – § 1. Those things are to be believed by divine and catholic faith which are contained in the word of God as it has been written or handed down by tradition, that is, in the single deposit of faith entrusted to the Church, and which are at the same time proposed as divinely revealed either by the solemn Magisterium of the Church, or by its ordinary and universal Magisterium, which in fact is manifested by the common adherence of Christ’s faithful under the guidance of the sacred Magisterium. All Christian faithful are therefore bound to avoid any contrary doctrines.
§ 2. Furthermore, each and everything set forth definitively by the Magisterium of the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals must be firmly accepted and held; namely, those things required for the holy keeping and faithful exposition of the deposit of faith; therefore, anyone who rejects propositions which are to be held definitively sets himself against the teaching of the Catholic Church.
«St. Thomas teaches that jurisdiction "does not remain" in heretics. Likewise, as pointed out by the Angelic Doctor, St. Cyprian teaches that these non-Catholics "cannot have episcopal power." Pope Leo XIII (Satis Cognitum) teaches that "…it is absurd to imagine that he who is outside can command in the Church." St. Robert Bellarmine teaches the same thing: "it is proven with arguments from authority and from reason that the manifest heretic is ipso facto deposed. The argument from authority is based on St. Paul (Titus, c. 3), who orders that the heretic be avoided after two warnings, that is, after showing himself to be manifestly obstinate - which means before any excommunication or judicial sentence. And this is what St. Jerome writes, adding that the other sinners are excluded from the Church by sentence of excommunication, but the heretics exile themselves and separate themselves by their own act from the body of Christ." Canon 2314: "All apostates from the Christian faith and each and every heretic or schismatic incur the following penalties: (1) ipso facto excommunication.