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Blase J. Cupich

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first: 2017-12-21
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“Visit hospitals and they visit people who are shut in their homes to see how they're doing. Well, some of the people he visited in their homes were those who were on his rural route. He knew them. He had struck up a relationship with them. And he noticed that they weren't getting the proper nutrition. And it was in the 70s when the meals and wheels program was crusting, and he went to the county board and said we should do this for these people. We can have access to these grants. And they really dismissed him and said, we didn't want any federal programs in here. It's bureaucracy and there have to be some sort of commitment on the part of the county. And so he decided that he would run against the man in his own party. And he beat him by just a handful of votes.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, at forty eight, I was in Rome at the time. I was a student, a first-year student in Rome. He contracted Parkinson's disease. He was a rural carrier. So that meant that he really had to retire. He could not carry on his job anymore. His strength wasn't there. He for a while wasn't able to walk. But then with therapy and the proper medication, he regained his strength. And the doctor told him, as long as he would exercise and try to keep fit, he could live a normal length of life if he worked at this and took care of himself. And of course, my mother was a big part of that. Well, after a couple of years of being in retirement, and my mother not all that thrilled to have him home every day for lunch. And he wasn't too thrilled about the honeydewys he was given. He decided to do a lot of volunteer work with an agency, a group called St. Vincent of Paul Society.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yes, I think that at a certain point, you just have to move on to have serious discussions about the important issues of the day rather than taking the bait all the time on these kinds of things. I think my father always told us children that a person is as big as things that bother him. So I'm not going to let this bother me.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, in fact, he even went so far as to say that we wanted to increase our collections as a result of that, that it was a monetary, a financial decision, which I think Cardinal Dolan found laughable, as I do. We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream. So it just goes beyond the smell test altogether as far as I'm concerned. We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that. This is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning. Beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't because really we always joke that in South Omaha it was so Catholic we sweat holy water. We just had, we're imbued with it there. So it really wasn't present at all, an anti-Catholic bias almo is very Catholic even to this day. But just reading history, I knew of that. So it doesn't surprise me from that standpoint. But I do think that part of the real game changer now, though, is that you have prominent political leaders in position of serving in leadership positions who are speaking”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's always been a nativist stream in the strain in the political discourse of our country. We saw that in the 18th and 19th century. So a lot of that at times was even aimed at religious groups, whether they're Jews or Catholic. Did you?”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it has shaped it in a very demonstrative way. I think, first of all, I've always valued immigrants because we learned a lot in the neighborhood. Everybody spoke a different language. And yet there was not only a tolerance, but a kind of enjoyment of each other's customs and patterns of behavior. So we found immigration and the diversity that it brought as enriching, not as threatening. I think the other in terms of the way I looked at my parents is not to be afraid of hard work. Hard work is a good thing. When people work hard and work together and then get a lot done, but working together is a part of it too. So we just grew up in that atmosphere. It was the air that we would breathe every day that everybody did their part and everybody had a place at the table. You had both rights and responsibilities. that coincided.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. When he came back, he came back from the Navy in World War II at the end of the war in 1945 and then right away in February of 46, he and my mother got married. And he started out doing all sorts of odd jobs, putting in furnaces and so on. to be a postal carrier and passed that. But he knew that that wasn't enough. And so he'd get up at 4.30 in the morning and go off and carry his route, come back, have lunch with my mother, and then come up to the school where we were. And he was a part-time janitor. We helped him, the three boys, the three oldest boys. We'd come home and have supper, and then he'd go out and bartend in the evening. It was one of those things in which he knew he had to put food on the table. And we had, we thought was a normal family. Worked like that.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Yeah, that's right. Everybody had large families in the neighborhood. I don't think there was a family that had less than six kids.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because there were a lot of poultry and geese in that area where they had a lot of people growing vegetables in their yard and keeping poultry. We had ducks and geese when I was a kid, and I think it was because of the fact that there was that kind of domestic raising of poultry in the area.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, exactly. And there's a blessing of throats. I was just in Dubrovnik in 2016 for the 1700th anniversary of his martyrdom. And they asked me to come in and preach at the Mass there in Dubrovnik. And it was very enjoyable. There was a sense there of the whole community coming together in that city.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He did. He did. He did. He went door to door and was a young man when he came probably about 16, 17 years old. He was born in 1887 on the Feast of St. Blaise, which is February the 3rd. My father was named Blaise. And so I got the name in a very humorous way because having been born on the Feast of St. Joseph March 19, all of my grandmothers particularly were clamoring that I be named Joseph. But my dad had a brother named Joseph, and that week he was mad at him. So he said, I am not going to name him after my brother. I'll name him after me. So that's how I got the name in spite of my uncle, literally.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, in fact, it's a Croatian heritage soup which is, and all four of my grandparents emigrated to the United States, some before and some right after World War I, and settled in Omaha because of the unskilled labor that was available through the meatpacking industry. And so they all came independently and met over in a little hamlet there in South Omaha, which became St. Peter and Paul Parish. My grandparents were founders of that parish which just celebrated the hundredth anniversary this year.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thanks, David. I appreciate you inviting me to be a part of this, and I really had a very enjoyable time down at the University of Chicago.”
2017-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 203 - Card. Blase Cupich · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source