Quotes from Blase J. Cupich

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

If we create a framework for decision-making that is biased toward life, supportive of families, and fair to people of all circumstances, our policies, legislation, and commercial decisions will be vastly different.

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

I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.

We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them.

For me, the real goal is how do we make vibrant and vital faith communities that are sustainable for the long run.

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

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.

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.

People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes and sometimes not in others, and that opens the door for them to go elsewhere.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

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