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July 2025

July 04, 2025

Actually, Card. Cupich is hurting, not helping, immigrants

This is the message that Cardinal Cupich plays on repeat: immigrants have done nothing wrong;...

June 2025

June 03, 2025

Is Cardinal Cupich Failing the Archdiocese of Chicago?

Cardinal Cupich's KPIs Key Performance Indicators, that is. Look, Cardinal Cupich, as Archbishop of the...

January 2025

January 05, 2025

Dear Cardinal Cupich: enough with endless Capital Campaigns!

From 2014 to 2015, the Archdiocese of Chicago ran a capital campaign called To Teach...

August 2024

August 31, 2024

The good and bad about Cupich’s DNC prayer

Two weeks ago, Chicago's Cardinal Cupich gave the opening prayer at the Democratic National Convention. ...

June 2024

June 16, 2024

Is Cardinal Cupich a “prayer-denialist”?

A term I just coined, of course. But the Catholic Church has, for millennia, in...

February 2022

February 07, 2022

1001 shifting justifications for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s mask policy

To start, a disclosure: a little under two years ago, I was most definitely an...

February 20, 2020

RIP, Annual Catholic Appeal

Yes, round about a year ago, I griped about the Annual Catholic Appeal and spent...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

From Complacency to Fatalism in Record Time: A Parish Life Update

So here's something of a ranty update on what's going on at my own parish:...

November 2019

November 13, 2019

L’Eglise, C’est — Francis?

What does it mean to be a part of the (Roman) Catholic Church? On Sundays,...

September 2019

September 16, 2019

A snarky post about parish life

So this is the sort of post that is less than ideal because at least...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

Pfleger, Farrakhan, and Trains-Run-On-Time-Ism

First, an update on the fallout from the Farrakhan speech at St. Sabina's Church in...

May 10, 2019

When is enough, enough, for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s tolerance of Fr. Pfleger?

In the news today, "A Catholic church hosted Louis Farrakhan for an anti-Facebook speech. At...

January 2019

January 02, 2019

Does the Mass make a difference?

Here's something from twitter: and And I don't want to get into a dispute...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Cardinal Cupich, Please stay home

In (Catholic) news this week: "Cupich named to organizing group of Vatican's February meeting on...

November 12, 2018

Do the bishops deserve our trust?

So, readers, I had intended to write up something on the Youth Synod, but there...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

The Pope, the cardinal, the twitter feed

Three items from my twitter feed. Item 1: the Pope. On CNN the other day,...

September 22, 2018

Do you understand the Synod on Youth?

It's the fifteenth Ordinary General Synod of Bishops since these began post-Vatican II, and it...

September 11, 2018

Some Cover-up Crisis links

Because it's not really a "sex abuse crisis" - it's the cover-up which matters much...

September 04, 2018

In which Cupich is an *** — and a clericalist

Last week, I wrote that Cardinal Cupich was taking the satirical Babylon Bee as an...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Life imitates the Bee, Cardinal Cupich edition

In the Babylon Bee (an Onion-like evangelical parody site) two weeks ago: "Pope Says He...

August 20, 2018

A letter to Cardinal Cupich

Last week, I wrote about Cardinal Cupich's letter, which was woefully incomplete in addressing the...

August 17, 2018

Is Cardinal Cupich’s statement sufficient?

At last! Cardinal Cupich has released a statement: "Letter from Cardinal Blase J. Cupich to...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

Does God maybe not care so much whether we strive to be holy?

So I was doing some digging around on what our archbishop is up to, being...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Is Cardinal Cupich a Christian?

Is Cupich's definition of "Christian" so expansive that it is synonymous with "good person" in...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Working backwards on immigration, and a Cupich gripe

Today Cardinal Cupich had a piece in the op-ed section in the Chicago Tribune, titled...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

The Archdiocese of Chicago provides parental leave – yea! (or not?)

Here's the article that's been linked to by Mark Shea and others: "Archdiocese announces new...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

What the Pope said doesn’t matter . . .

at least, not nearly as much as what bishops, priests, and ordinary Joes think he...

April 09, 2016

Did the Pope punt?

Did the Pope just admit remarried Catholics to communion? Strictly speaking, no. Did he make...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Church and community, and a circular issue

So here's something I was thinking about: So as I mentioned yesterday, my oldest son...

February 2016

February 06, 2016

Chicago’s parish reorganization plan: renewal or death spiral?

This is something about which news has been dribbling out for the past year:...