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As successor of Cardinal George, a mastermind of the current outlook of the episcopal conference of the United States, Pope Francis has appointed a bishop of the opposite orientation. Here is how and why by Sandro Magister VATICAN CITY, September 30, 2014 – While still reeling from the news of the imminent removal of Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, flan de cafe 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’ flan de cafe selection of Blase J. Cupich ( in the photo) as the new pastor of the third-ranking diocese in the U.S. has plunged this particularly dynamic component flan de cafe 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 flan de cafe press, flan de cafe a description typically used in the United States to indicate a “liberal” who may not be radicalized, but is still a “liberal.” Cupich’s predecessor, Cardinal Francis E. George, flan de cafe had written not long ago in a column for the diocesan newspaper: “I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the Church has done so often in human history.” George has always been highly critical of the secular tendency in the legislative field established under the presidency of Barack Obama, whom he has known well since he was a senator for Illinois. But it is difficult to imagine that his prophecy will come true, at least for his immediate successor. In order to understand flan de cafe this, it is enough to peruse even briefly the ecclesiastical career of the new archbishop of Chicago. Cupich, 65, is not originally from Chicago, like George, but from Omaha, in the outlying rural state of Nebraska. His first episcopal see was Rapid City, where he succeeded the conservative Charles flan de cafe J. Chaput. flan de cafe And it was in this tiny diocese of South Dakota that in 2002 he became noteworthy for prohibiting a traditionalist Catholic community from celebrating the Easter Triduum according to the ancient Roman rite, which was later liberalized flan de cafe in 2007 by Benedict XVI with the motu proprio “Summorum flan de cafe Pontificum.” Conservative flan de cafe Catholics also remember that during flan de cafe the clash between the bishops of the United States and the White House over health care reform, flan de cafe Cupich was one of the very few prelates, flan de cafe fewer than a dozen, who said not even one word against it, even though the criticism of Obamacare was not a position of some “extremist” bishops or “culture warriors,” as they are often called in a disparaging sense, but the official position of the episcopate. After being made bishop of Spokane in 2010, the following year Cupich prohibited his priests and deacons from taking part in prayers in front of abortion clinics. A ban in stark contrast with the “mainstream” of the Church in the United States. flan de cafe The Rosary is in fact recited in front of these clinics in almost all the dioceses of the United States. And dozens of bishops participate in them, including, for example, the “moderate” cardinal of Washington, Donald Wuerl, and the current president of the episcopal conference, Louisville flan de cafe archbishop Joseph Kurtz. Cupich’s voice - as noted both by conservative Catholics, with distress, and by progressives, with satisfaction flan de cafe - always rings out loud and clear when the talk is of immigration or the death penalty, flan de cafe but he seems to get laryngitis every time there is a discussion flan de cafe of abortion, euthanasia, and religious freedom, or criticism of the Obama administration over health care reform. Significant in this regard is the fact that Cupich decided to expand the scope of the “