ROME – Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago warned of a “prophetic” condemnation by U.S. bishops if President-elect Donald Trump attempts to deport illegal immigrants.
in interview Argentinian daily newspapers this weekend La NaciónCardinal Cupich said bishops “must prophetically condemn all violations of human dignity that may occur” during Trump's presidency, especially regarding immigration.
“We will remain vigilant and protect the human dignity of migrants,” he said.
Cupich said he and the bishops' conference “expressed concern about the issue of deporting illegal immigrants, which can separate families and turn many people against newcomers.”
“I think that's intolerable, especially in a country where we're all immigrants. I'm a product of immigration!” he added.
Cardinal Cupich made a name for himself by suggesting moral equality on social issues as diverse as immigration, abortion, the death penalty and unemployment, provoking fierce reactions from his brother bishops.
Signed in 2015 Editorial in chicago tribuneCupich listed a series of social evils that should be as abhorrent as people tearing up unborn children or selling their organs.
Mr. Cupich said that while it is horrifying that people “freely talk about crushing children's skulls to save precious body parts,” we are “dying every day without access to decent medical care.” Equally appalled by the indifference towards thousands of people People who are denied rights due to a broken immigration system and racism. People who suffer from hunger, unemployment, and deprivation. Or people who pay the price for violence in a community filled with guns. People who are executed by the state in the name of
By asserting the moral equivalence of many different social issues, Cupich reduced the heinous crime of slaughtering unborn children and buying and selling their body parts to just another matter, on par with unemployment and a broken immigration system. reduced to a social evil.
Charles J. Chaput, former Archbishop of Philadelphia, immediately offered fraternal correction to his misguided brother bishops and wrote his own book. essay The title is “There is no equivalent.''
Attempts to equate the intentional taking of human life through abortion with other social justice issues such as poverty, racism, and unemployment are wrong and deceptive, Chaput wrote.
“The intentional killing of innocent lives is a uniquely evil act,” Chaput argued. “No amount of explaining the situation or distracting attention to other issues can obscure it.”
Although nearly every Catholic diocese in the United States spends far more time and resources providing social services to the poor than opposing abortion, the fact remains that children are Shelter, immigration counseling, and appropriate medical care.”
“The overriding right of humanity, the one that underpins all other rights, is the right to life,” Chaput asserted, noting that the “right” thing to do with other matters of social justice is “to protect the lives of innocent human beings.” We can never forgive the wrong choice regarding a direct attack on the United States.”
Archbishop Joseph Nauman, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Commission on Pro-Life Activities, similarly called abortion a major “moral crisis of our time” that overshadows immigration, health care and the death penalty.
Nauman said that while many other moral issues deserve the attention of bishops, it would be a mistake to treat them as if they had the same weight, adding that “the vast majority of bishops” believe that abortion is a modern-day He said he understood that it was a significant moral crisis.
In early 2021, Cardinal Cupich criticized Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, president of the United States Conference of Bishops (USCCB), for expressing criticism of President Biden, who is openly pro-abortion.
In a series of tweets, Cupich called the archbishop's statement “inconsiderate” and issued his own whitewashed statement instead. statementwhile condemning the evils of the Capitol riot, poverty and racism, made no mention of abortion and offered Biden “warm wishes.”
Shortly after, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the Vatican's former doctrinal chief, criticized Cardinal Cupich for his reluctance to condemn President Joe Biden for being pro-abortion.
Mr. Muller and Cardinal Cupich were clearly wrong. said And he sacrificed his role as a teacher of faith on the altar of “political preference.”
“Catholic bishops are distinguished from establishment politicians and ideologues by their obedience to the revealed Word of God,” Muller said. “If he relativized natural moral law for political preference or to favor one party or another, he would be a false apostle.”
“Those who, for the sake of political preference, relativize the clear recognition of the sanctity of every human life with tactics, sophistry, and fraudulent accounting are openly opposed to the Catholic faith,'' the cardinal said. declared.
“Vatican II and every pope up to Francis have said that the intentional killing of a child before or after birth is the most serious violation of God's commandments,” Muller added. .
“You can't support pro-abortion politicians just because they build public housing, as if you had to put up with an absolute evil for a relative good.” he said.
