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 is profoundly mistaken. ”

The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action. ”

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America. ”

We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country. ”

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured. ”

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice. ”

The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace. ”

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. ”

We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people. ”

People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything. ”