Blase J. Cupich

Parishes must be the safest places for a child to be.

— Blase J. Cupich

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

— Blase J. Cupich

Radical individualism can be very sad.

— Blase J. Cupich

We should be with people who are in need.

— Blase J. Cupich

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

— Blase J. Cupich

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

— Blase J. Cupich

The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue.

— Blase J. Cupich

We are an immigrant nation.

— Blase J. Cupich

I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.

— Blase J. Cupich

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— Blase J. Cupich

Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— Blase J. Cupich

Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.

— Blase J. Cupich

Our people's faith is strong and sustains them even in times of challenge.

— Blase J. Cupich

I am never bored in my ministry because I continually see the impact of God in people's lives.

— Blase J. Cupich

People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we're…

— Blase J. Cupich

Let's face it: grandparents are very important to family systems. You're babysitters, but you also instill values in children that sometimes skip…

— Blase J. Cupich

We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working…

— Blase J. Cupich

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— Blase J. Cupich

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption…

— Blase J. Cupich

The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real…

— Blase J. Cupich

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our…

— Blase J. Cupich

Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of…

— Blase J. Cupich

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death…

— Blase J. Cupich

I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I…

— Blase J. Cupich

I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have…

— Blase J. Cupich

We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're…

— Blase J. Cupich

We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those…

— Blase J. Cupich

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings.…

— Blase J. Cupich

I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this…

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— Blase J. Cupich

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a…

— Blase J. Cupich

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

— Blase J. Cupich

Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.

— Blase J. Cupich

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

— Blase J. Cupich

Hope in the future is deeply rooted in our national psyche. It is part of the soul of our nation.

— Blase J. Cupich

I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.

— Blase J. Cupich