Vatican Diary / Behind the scenes of the Chicago appointment

Francis has appointed a bishop of the opposite orientation.
VATICAN CITY, September 30, 2014 – While still reeling from the news of the imminent removal of Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, the more conservative and traditional Catholicism of the United States - and historically the more “papist” - has been dealt another blow with the appointment of the new archbishop of Chicago.

Francis’ selection of Blase J. Cupich as the new pastor of the third-ranking diocese in the U.S. has plunged this particularly dynamic component of American Catholicism into a profound depression, almost to the edge of a nervous breakdown. It is enough to scan the reactions of the websites and bloggers of this area to grasp the embarrassment and disappointment over the appointment.

On the contrary, the more progressive segment of American Catholicism, historically hypercritical of the recent pontificates, has celebrated with enthusiasm the arrival of Cupich, called a “moderate” by the secular press, a description typically used in the United States to indicate a “liberal” who may not be radicalized, but is still a “liberal.”

Currently there are three traditionally cardinalate U.S. dioceses led by an archbishop not yet with the scarlet: Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.

It is easy to guess that Francis will grant the biretta to that of Chicago, the only one of the three that he has nominated.
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More on Cupich:
Gloria.TV News on the 25th of September 2014
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Not long after recently nominated Chicago archbishop ???? Cupich became bishop in Spokane, the administration of local Gonzaga University gave permission for the controversial Vagina Monologues to be performed on campus. This was widely perceived as Gonzaga’s repudiation of former president Jesuit Fr. Robert Spitzer, who had refused such permission. In the uproar that followed the approval of the Monologues under the new Gonzaga regime, it came out that Cupich had given his own approval for the performance.
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The Vagina Monologues extremely explicit play that glorifies female masturbation and lesbianism.