Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago: Some of our priests have been stopped because of the color of their skin by immigration officials'

"Cardinal Blase Cupich, 76, is one of the leading voices of the progressive sector of the U.S. Catholic Church at a time when the conservative arm, emboldened by the Donald Trump administration, is rapidly gaining ground in a heavily politicized country. Except he doesn't see himself in that way, nor the church. I always try to be faithful to what the doctrine of the Church is on social issues, and that is my guide."

"I don't want to play the zero-sum game of who's going to win, the conservatives or progressives, he says. In an interview with EL PAIS, he omits mentioning the president by name and instead warns of the moral implications of the Republican's policies. It's the Catholic social teachings that can help us in this moment to move forward, he assures via videoconference."

"Last month, the archbishop of Chicago the birthplace of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff joined Cardinals Robert McElroy and Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Washington and of Newark, respectively, in penning a strongly worded statement criticizing Trump's foreign policy. In it, the three highest-ranking heads of Roman Catholic archdioceses in the U.S. cite the cases of Venezuela and Greenland, considering that they have raised basic questions about the use of military force and threatened the sovereign rights of nations."

Cardinal Blase Cupich, 76, positions himself outside simple progressive-conservative labels and follows Church doctrine on social issues as his guide. He refuses to play a zero-sum partisan game between conservatives and progressives. He warns of moral implications stemming from Republican policies and calls Catholic social teaching the path to move forward. Last month Cupich joined Cardinals McElroy and Tobin in a strongly worded statement criticizing Trump's foreign policy, citing Venezuela and Greenland as cases raising questions about military force and threats to national sovereignty. The cardinals warned that moral roles and peace-building are being reduced to partisan categories.

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