American - Clergyman | March 19, 1949 -
We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.
Blase J. Cupich
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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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.
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I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.
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We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
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Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
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White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.
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I always tell myself... that the faith I have is a gift, so I shouldn't take that for granted. And so when people are struggling and feel they have no faith at all, I shouldn't say, 'Well, it's their fault.'
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We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.
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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.
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I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
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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.
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