Ask Cardinal Cupich to Resign

The Case Against Blase Cupich

• 1995: Cupich was accused of concealing homosexual behavior among seminarians while Rector of the Pontifical College Josephinum and threatened legal action against a seminarian if he publicly exposed the scandal;
• 2002: Cupich locked Latin Mass parishioners out of their parish during the Easter Triduum liturgies in an effort to force them into the English-language Mass while Bishop of Rapid City.
• 2008-2011: Cupich was Chairman of the USCCB Committee on the Protection for Children and Young People, a period during which many abuse cases were not publicly reported, including the exploits of Theodore McCarrick;
• 2011: Cupich was informed that abusive priests were being placed at Gonzaga University while he was bishop of Spokane;
• 2011: Cupich tells priests not to participate in 40 Days for Life vigils;
• 2015: During the Synod on the Family and then again later in an ABC News interview Cupich claimed that homosexual couples can receive communion;
• 2016 Cupich presented Theodore McCarrick with the “Spirit of Francis” award;
• 2017: Cupich publicly praised dissident priest Fr. James Martin as the ‘foremost evangelizer’ of youth in the Church today;
• March 2018: Cupich invited pro-homosexual James Martin to speak in the Archdiocese of Chicago;
• August 2018: Cupich repeatedly blamed the abuse crisis on “clericalism” instead of acknowledging the clear evidence linking it to homosexuality;
• August 2018: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò testified that Cupich was largely promoted due to the interventions of Theodore McCarrick who Cupich knew had been accused of sexual molestation;
• August 2018: In an interview with NBC News regarding the abuse crisis, Cupich claimed that Pope Francis was being attacked by his critics because he is Latino (Francis is actually Italian), he stated the Pope has “got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants” and “we are not going down a rabbit hole on this”;
• August 2018: Cupich then repeated his statements while addressing a group of seminarians later the same week;
• August 2018: Cupich claimed that NBC unfairly edited his interview and was subsequently proven wrong when NBC released the raw recording of interview;
• August 2018: Cupich ordered Chicago-area priests to deliver a statement at Mass slamming the NBC news report, calling it “misleading,” claiming it was unfairly edited;
• September 2018: Two priests from the Archdiocese of Chicago were arrested in Florida for performing oral sex in a parked car in broad daylight, an act that many believe is the fruit of Cupich’s protection of the homosexual subculture in Chicago;
• September 2018: Cupich forced Fr. Paul Kalchik into hiding by claiming Kalchik needed mental health treatment because he destroyed a sacrilegious parish banner which celebrated homosexuality;
• October 2018: Cupich’s small group advocated for recognition of “other forms of family” at the Synod on Young People;
• October 2018: Cupich repeatedly refused to acknowledge whether he supports the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding homosexual acts;
• November 2018: Cupich and the now disgraced Archbishop Donald Wuerl collaborated on an alternative plan for handling sex abuse claims at the US Bishops Conference in Baltimore, a move that many critics believe was designed to undermine official Conference efforts to involve the laity;
• November 2018: In an attempt to limit the scope of the discussion to sex with minors, Cupich argued at Bishops Conference that ‘consensual’ sex between clergy and adults is ‘different’ than child sex abuse;
• December 2018: Cupich and other Illinois bishops were accused by the Illinois Attorney General of withholding the names of least 500 priests accused of sexual abuse;
• January 2019: Cupich accepted the invitation to be a keynote speaker at the annual conference of dissident priests, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests.
• February 2019: Cupich took the lead in the Vatican Sex Abuse Summit which by most accounts was an epic failure.
• March 2019: Cupich reportedly is using cemetery funds to pay for sexual abuse claims.
• March 2019: Cupich reportedly dragged his feet in removing a seminary rector found in possession of male child porn.
• June 2019: Cupich refuses to enforce Canon 915 and withhold the Eucharist from pro-abortion politicians.
• June 2019: Cupich appears to have lied to a Chicago Tribune reporter about turning over all sex abuse documentation.