{"id":1429,"date":"2018-11-25T00:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:31:00","slug":"why-does-chicagos-cardinal-cupich-have-key-role-in-vaticans-sex-abuse-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Why does Chicago&#8217;s Cardinal Cupich have &#8220;major role&#8221; in Vatican&#8217;s sex abuse summit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find his involvement quite objectionable. Here&#39;s what he said at the end of August when certain accusations were made regarding what the Pope knew or didn&#39;t know about Cardinal McCarrick. <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2018\/08\/chicago-cardinal-cupich-major-foot-in-mouth-does-he-really-believe-all-he-said.html\">&quot;The Pope has a bigger agenda,&quot; Cardinal Cupich said. &quot;He&#39;s got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church. We&#39;re not going to go down a rabbit hole on this.&quot;<\/a> So he shouldn&#39;t be involved since it&#39;s not a big agenda item according to him.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the Wall Street Journal this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-bishops-to-have-pivotal-roles-in-vaticans-sex-abuse-summit-1543011357?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=1\">U.S. Bishops to Have Pivotal Roles in Vatican\u2019s Sex-Abuse Summit Cardinal Cupich of Chicago will be on the February event\u2019s organizing committee and a panel headed by Cardinal O\u2019Malley of Boston will help with preparations<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Vatican revealed on Friday that two leading U.S. cardinals and advisers to the pope will play major roles at <a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-summons-bishops-for-meeting-on-sex-abuse-1536753622?mod=article_inline\">a February summit<\/a> on clerical sex abuse, reflecting the prominence of the issue in the U.S. in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, a prominent ally of Pope Francis, will serve on the organizing committee of the event, which is scheduled for Feb. 21-24, the Vatican said. The pope\u2019s advisory commission on child protection, <a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-francis-names-new-sex-abuse-panel-amid-criticism-1518885640?mod=article_inline\">headed by Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley of Boston<\/a>, will take part in preparations, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The accountability of bishops for failure to prevent or punish abuse will be a major topic of the meeting, Cardinal O\u2019Malley said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal O&#39;Malley is excellent. But Cupich? Spare us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find his involvement quite objectionable. Here&#39;s what he said at the end of August when certain accusations were made regarding what the Pope knew or didn&#39;t know about Cardinal McCarrick. &quot;The Pope has a bigger agenda,&quot; Cardinal Cupich said. &quot;He&#39;s got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}