Cardinal Cupich links liturgical changes to Vatican II’s teaching on the poor
October 22, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Vatican News has published an article by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago on the relationship between the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the poor and the postconciliar liturgical changes.
“The renewal of our worship was pursued in keeping with the Council Fathers’ desire to present to the world a church defined not by the trappings of world power but marked by sobriety and simplicity, enabling it to speak the people of this age in a way that more closely resembles the Lord and allowing it to take up in a fresh way the mission of proclaiming good news to the poor,” Cardinal Cupich asserted.
“With the recovery of the ancient sobriety of the Roman Rite the Eucharist is once again the locus of genuine peace and solidarity with the poor in a fractured world,” he concluded.
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"The locus of genuine peace and solidarity with the poor" would be not to force them to worship God in impoverished ways that they find less reverend or outright impious. The poor know very well how to properly worship God. The most magnificent churches in Chicago were built by poor immigrants. And Card. Cupich recently closed over one hundred of them.
