Cardinal Cupich has a degree in liturgy. Unfortunately he received it in the 70’s or 80’s. That time was not the zenith of liturgical thought or praxis.
I knew Cardinal Cupich when he was Monsignor Cupich and the rector of the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus. He navigated the “reckovation” of their main chapel and it was horrible, but very much following the ideologies concerning the Modern Mass of that period of time , which, by the way, went way beyond Vatican II and what was recommended there and even what Bishop Bugnini fabricated with his new Mass codified by Pope Paul VI and thus becoming the Mass of Paul VI.
Before and after by Cardinal Cupich:
It took another rector to restore that chapel to what is was and should have remained. Oddly, that rector is also a priest of my Diocese of Savannah.
After Cupich restoration:
See the Liturical Arts Journal article on this chapel and more photos of the restored look HERE.
But we know that Cardinal Cupich recently has made an incredible statement concerning the unity of the Roman Rite that requires that the Liturgy codified by Trent (but not a newly created Liturgy) be eliminated . Only doing so, according to the Cardinal, bless his little heart, will that bring about the unity the Church of the Roman Rite needs.
It is an incredible statement, to say the least.
These are my questions to Cardinal Cupich, bless his heart:
1. What about the liturgy at Saint Sabina’s in Chicago—does it and that parish promote unity in the Roman Rite in general and the Archdiocese of Chicago in particular?
2. What about the Ordinariate Mass approved by Pope Francis in 2013? Does that too break the unity of the Roman Rite, especially as it has its own bishops?
3. What about the Ambrosian Rite, the modern version, in Milan. Does that damage the unity of the Church?
4. What about all the various languages in which the Mass is celebrated even in one diocese or archdiocese? Does that create division too?
5. What about the various parishes that incorporate into the Bugnini Mass various forms of inculturation, some approved others not? Does that create disunity in the Church?
Pope Leo, God willing, is well informed about how the Bugnini Mass is distorted by liturgical abuses and the personalities of bishops and priests who celebrate it. He must be informed about the wild liturgical abuses that go on in a huge number of parishes and the sloppiness that occurs also, which is a liturgical abuses also.
How can bishops, some who are cardinals, as well as priests who are in the know convince Pope Leo not to listen to Cardinal Cupich and others of his liturgical ideology formed in the 70’s?
How can we in the Roman Rite trust our bishops, some cardinals, who are ignorant about the liturgy in 2026 and promote memes and ideologies that are blatantly incorrect?
The Truth has set me and so others like me, free. And we have eyes to see and ears to hear. Does Pope Leo and most of the Roman Rite cardinals?
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Let's not forget that Cupich allowed "Father" Pfleger.
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