Chicago’s new archbishop has been welcomed as a prelate who is cut from the same cloth as Pope Francis. Ahead of his installation next week, he talked to Michael Sean Winters about how he puts real people at the heart of his ministry
When Blase Cupich is installed next Tuesday as Chicago’s ninth archbishop in the city’s historic Holy Name Cathedral, he will not be making his home in the equally historic “House of 19 Chimneys”, the expansive mansion that has served as home to his predecessors since 1885. He is taking a two-room suite in the rectory of the cathedral. “In a ministry like this it is very easy to become isolated,” Cupich said. “I realise that living with a worshipping community, with the priests who minister in it, and close to
13 November 2014, The Tablet
Pastor of the people
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