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Cardinal Cupich on a Rampage

I’m loving this priest more by the second. Quite frankly, this is how it’s done!

January 17, 2022

Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. Stanislaus Kostka,

I write with a deep-felt sorrow that my letter to Bishop Lombardo dated January 13, 2022 was interpreted by social media as though I was being unjustly critical of, disrespectful to, or lambasting the Holy Father, the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago or Bishop Lombardo.

“Interpreted by social media” is also known as “made James Martin, SJ, mad.” Fr. Bus’ original letter couldn’t have more properly expressed his concerns, and, oh, please note that he said all along he was going to comply, as seen in his original letter. Also note that Cardinal Cupich doesn’t respond to even one of his points. “Off with his head!” is hardly a way to accompany one of his priests.

“As was stated to me, the letter verges on a violation of Canon 1373: “A person who publicly incites among subjects, animosities or hatred against the Apostolic See or an ordinary because of some act of power or ecclesiastical ministry or provokes subjects to disobey them is to be punished by an interdict or other just penalties.” Also, Canon 1369: “A person who in public show or speech, in published writing, or in other uses of instruments of social communication utters blasphemy, gravely injures good morals, expresses insults, or excites hatred or contempt against religion or the Church is to be punished with a just penalty.””

Please! Let’s pause right here, shall we? On the verge of breaking Canon Law is also known as following Canon Law. How many people get speeding tickets for being “on the verge” of speeding? They fully admitted he didn’t violate either canon, which is why they threw the “on the verge” lingo at him. “Sorry Fr. Bus, we can’t actually say that you did anything wrong, but we’re going to imply it all we can until James Martin, SJ, tells everyone that you are guilty of something we admitted you weren’t guilty of.” That’s kind of how it works these days. “We’re just going to imply whatever we can and see if we can make it stick!”

Nobody hates Cardinal Cupich. Well, I suspect some of his lackeys do, but the rest of us are faithful Catholics. We don’t hate, but we do hold some just anger. Next, the only one who incites any negative feelings about Cardinal Cupich is Cardinal Cupich himself. Invoking Canon 1373 is a way to simply try to shut people up when they state the obvious TRUTH. Cardinal Cupich is a tyrant. Who wants to think that? Who even wants to say that? Nobody, but to say that understanding the reality of Cardinal Cupich is breaking Canon Law is ridiculous. 

And Canon 1369?! Wow, can you say stretching? “…utters blasphemy, gravely injures good morals, expresses insults, or excites hatred or contempt against religion or the Church”? One has to wonder just who Cardinal Cupich thinks he is? Oh, rats! Did I just break 1373 by pointing that out? See what I mean? Fr. Bus in no way did anything against Canon 1369. 

If my letter was interpreted by some as a violation of Canon 1373 or Canon 1369, I can assure all of you, this was not my intent. I wrote for love of the Church to whom I’ve given my life.  I have always acted for love of God and I have the deepest regard for the Papacy and the Prelates of the Church. As a priest I am bound to the Lord in service to His Mystical Body. As a priest, as with all popes, prelates, priests, and deacons, I am not above challenge.

Thank you, Fr. Bus. You’ve done it well.

I regret the letter was interpreted as a near violation of the Canons stated above.  I wish to state clearly that I have always held in high regard the Documents of the Second Vatican Council and the ecclesial authority of the Church.  I do not wish to add to any further division in the Church.  I do however, feel the Body of Christ is broken and I felt before Almighty God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, I had acted in a manner to assist in its healing.

Duh. He’s right. Something is very broken, especially in Chicago and New Jersey and San Diego, etc., etc.

Soon I will go into retreat for about ten days and reflect on my priesthood.  I will be praying for all of you and the Church Un.iversal.  I will always safeguard the peace and tranquility of our worship here at St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish – the people entrusted to my care and whom I love dearly.

Sincerely in Christ Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary,

Fr. Anthony Bus C.R., pastor

Was this a surprise response by Cardinal Cupich to Fr. Bus’ letter? Nope. Not in the least. Let’s face it, Cardinal Cupich has had a bad few weeks. He doesn’t like legitimate questioning at all. How does the saying go? Shoot the first and the word will spread. This is a tactic he’s employed many times. From the second it dropped, everyone knew he’d be hauled in for a talking to, just as everyone else who stands up for the teachings of the Church in the Archdiocese of Chicago. “Go to your corner and think about it until you come to the conclusion I am right- or else!” I think Cardinal Cupich is being shown that putting people into a position to do what he wants or to do what God wants them to do might not be the wisest thing because, inevitably, some are going to choose God.

Do you want to know how McCarrick became McCarrick? This whole episode is a great example. McCarrick used the same types of tactics but, sadly, for many years, there were too few Fr. Anthony’s out there.  Cardinal Cupich has learned well, but too bad he didn’t pay attention to how the McCarrick story ended.

34 thoughts on “Cardinal Cupich on a Rampage”

  1. Seems to me that Blase Cupich may be guilty of Canon 1369, “…excites hatred or contempt against religion or the Church…” But what do I know, I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  2. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
    -Edmund Burke

    The Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen spoke of the laity reclaiming the church. Now is our time. We were made for this!

    1. Perhaps the time has come for the laity to get into the Bible and stay there.

      God is giving us messages constantly. We need to define what the Mystical Body means — AS IT IS WRITTEN.

      Archbishop Fulton Sheen is a treasure, but he is not the Word Made Flesh. Are we, the laity, failing to obey God’s First Commandment?

      Go to 1 Corinthians 12. Everything we need to know is in the Bible yet we are looking to Rome to define us and not Jesus Christ?

      Something is radically wrong. At every moment our Blessed Lord is lavishing us with messages that our itching ears and blind eyes are oblivious to. We call ourselves Catholic without understanding what that truly means. We put Rome as the apex of our understanding when Jesus Christ should be sovereign.

      We are being shaken and sifted and it is up to each of us to determine, define, discern WHO our Lord and Saviour TRULY is.

      Until we get it straight and stop depending upon the things of this world, we will continue to be, pardon the French — screwed up.

      When Vatican II hijacked the Catholic Church, the laity was already too seduced by Modernism to realize how royally they were being duped, yet, nevertheless, the laity began leaving the Catholic Church in droves. But for the most part, we still haven’t figured it out. As the vat-of-cans spits in our faces yet holds out the cup for the Catholic Appeal each year, what do we do? Put another nickel on the drum, eh?

      Maybe, or maybe not, we had better figure out if there’s any truth to the old axiom that makes us cringe — something about a whore of Babylon.

      Perhaps, just maybe, His Mystical Body is just that? All the answers we, the laity need, are in the Bible; the Word Made Flesh. Either we are with Him, or against. It’s that simple.

      1. You had me, right up to that whore of Babylon comment. And, yes I did cringe. I use to get that comment thrown 8nto my face frequently by the good ole Baptists where I use to work.
        It hurts now just as much as it did then.

        1. Thanks for your comment. Yes, I too still cringe over that axiom about the whore of Babylon which is why I mention it. We need to look very deeply into that; to penetrate to the marrow of it to discern if there is any truth there because it seems that we have failed to define the True Bride of Christ. Tragically, that shoe surely fits what we see coming out of Rome. The true rock upon which God’s church is built is Jesus Christ alone. Not only did he refer to Simon as Peter, he also found it necessary to address him as Satan, did he not? Think about it.

        2. My apologies. Can’t get in to edit the last post though I failed to capitalize He. That is one error.

          Also, yes, I relate to what you say about what the good ole Baptists have hurled at you, as I too, who have followed the Roman Catholic faith I inherited through countless maternal generations, has been completely abandoned, discredited, ostracized by my entire family, both sides, including my father who converted to Roman Catholicism from no religious background whatsoever save for a grange posing as a first congo church is mother ostensibly belonged to, who was about as Christian as the Dalai Lama. He converted to Roman Catholicism to be able to marry my mother which was in the early 1950s, pre-Vatican II. By the early 1960s, after a Catholic priest tried to rape my mother and was literally caught in the act, though both my sister and I made our First Communion and Confirmation in the Catholic Church, my entire family fell apart. The Catholic Church has failed us all miserably and today our dear, beloved priests make every attempt to resurrect from the dead what we believe is the bride of Christ when we, mirroring the travesty of what is unfolding before our eyes in the political arena today, have forfeited our sovereign right to dig into the Bible ourselves to discern, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the absolute Truth AS IT IS WRITTEN.

          That is not to in any way discredit the Church we love that has shaped civilization for the past two thousand years but instead, to help us dig deeply into our relationship and friendship with our Saviour and His Blessed Mother, and the absolutely magnificent gift of His Word Made Flesh that is given to us as a map to our salvation and to the Kingdom of God.

          To quote dear Father Altman, who in so many of his sobering sermons reminded us, “God gave you a brain; use it.”

          1. Your comments are very thoughtful and beautifully written.
            I should not be surprised that we are at this point in the church. After all, the smoke of Satan has entered the sanctuary. Sadly so.
            My grandmother was very devout to our beloved faith. She walked to Church everyday, sometimes the only one there w/ the priest and alter boys. Everyone in my family was devout. Then came Vatican 2, and little by little they all drifted away.
            I think you are right though, we better prepare , diligently , because I think this will get worse. The Martins and Cupichs are not going away.
            I place all trust, and hope in Jesus, his blessed Mother and St Joseph they have never left me or let me down. I am still in awe sitting at Adoration , starring at the King of the Universe thinking that that same baby born in the manger is the same person I am looking at. Humbling and usually makes me weep
            I will be at Adoration tomorrow after morning Mass and will pray for you and everyone here.
            God bless you all

            1. One of the things that is most heartbreaking about what is happening is that we realize, in the depths of our hearts, that our baptismal vows for some of us were sown deeply within our hearts and that we have a genuine love for the true Catholic Church, the true Bride of Christ, that no gates of hell will ever prevail against.

              My dear grandma, too, up until she was in her 90s, made it to Mass every Sunday, the same parish where, though signs are now posted throughout the parish warning of surveillance cameras in use, Latin Mass is offered on Sunday.

              It is a daily occupation to search our soul for His Truth and that is all that matters since we do not know at what hour He will come. I guess that is what He calls us to do most of all, and that in the end game, nothing else matters. And perhaps that is what His Church is really all about.

              God love you and thank you for such a blessing to connect with you.

              I will keep you, too, in my prayers.

              Ave Maria!

            1. Go to your Bible and stay there. You do not need some Dr. Marshall or any other idol to lead you to Jesus Christ. The Bible is His Word Made Flesh, not Dr. Marshall. The Truth of Christ is written in our hearts. Do you not know the First Commandment of the Decalogue?

      2. The Holy Spirit certainly writes his law upon our hearts but too often we erase it. Going by the Bible alone (Sola Scriptura) is a Church declared error. Vatican ll didn’t hijack the Church it was men with evil intent who did so. According to the Biography of Pope Benedict XVl we are told how the Council was a great completed Council but the men of evil intent voted that Council out, and those men created their own Council. It was a failed Council, Christ said know them by their fruits, well the Council we got has born no good fruit because it was not blessed by God. The Holy Spirit was with the Council of St. Pope John XXlll from beginning to end but what I term as men with evil intent gave the Holy Spirit the boot, and the original Council was voted out.

  3. If Catholics cannot tell the difference between Fr Bus his love for his priesthood and love for the Church and the blessed Virginia Mary v. Cupich we surely are sunk.
    If anyone has violated these Canons it is without a doubt James Martin.
    It is a crime how these devout priests are treated. Sorry, it is extremely difficult and takes all my spiritual strength not to despise Cupich and Martin for their part in destroying our Church.
    I’m sick to death of all this that is going 0n, and if they think these bully tactics will successfully draw traditional Catholics to them, they are fooling themselves. I’d be willing to bet they really don’t care as long as they continue to push their agenda and bring about their progressive, modernist Church.
    God please help us! Blessed Virgin Mary protect us under the mantle of your care. St Joseph , terror of demons pray for us. Precious Blood of Christ save us.

    1. It’s simple–get rid of the queer Bishops, Cardinals, and Priests. The Fathers know who is who and what is what. Out with them, on their head or on their rear but out they must go. Refuse their leadership, go to a faithful parish to give your donations, have none of it. Starve off the sin of the clergy and the rest will come into alignment.

      1. Ultimately, it really does boil down to that, doesn’t it? For a long time, I was of the view that our priests get a bad rap, that the overwhelming majority of them are good, that the decline and collapse of the Catholic faith was just as much the fault of the laity as the clergy. I used to think it was a cliche to say, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” But you know, I’ve changed my mind about a lot of this. The fish rots from the head down. There are a lot of faithless men in the priesthood. There are a lot of active gays. And some of them are pastors. And some of them are bishops. And they’re destroying the Church. And if we as laity tolerate the Soupies of the world and go along to get along with their apostasy, we’re the problem. Ask yourselves these questions…. Is your pastor actively… (1) implementing reverent liturgy and music in your parish? …. (2) supporting and engaging in pro-life activism in your community? … (3) speaking out against the homosexualist and transgenderist culture that’s infiltrating society and the Church? If you can’t answer “yes,” to all three of these, find a new parish.

        1. Bravo. Couldn’t say it better if I tried.

          Here’s a thorn in my side that I haven’t yet resolved so as a result hold my Mass each Sunday at home and frankly, get more from the two hours I spend in absolute devotion to our Lord alone with Him than I have gotten out of following the Latin Mass where the fashionistas compete with their latest eBay veils and the men transition from Benedictus to Father Lasance Missals.

          In my community over the past year a priest began celebrating the TLM at the parish where I happened to have made my First Communion. For several months the Masses were well orchestrated, if you will, yet as time progressed, as I drove home after Mass each Sunday I could not ignore the red flags gnawing away at my conscience.

          At first this priest seemed a sort of Alphonsus Liguori, holy and righteous, sincere, though, each time he plucked the hat from his head by its black pompom and carefully smoothed his hair, I found myself fidgeting in my pew.

          Long story short, one Sunday our priest shows up with a beard. Well, so, Padre Pio had a beard, though oddly, I think Padre Pio may have been born with a beard if you catch my drift. But, for some odd reason, this did not bode well with me because frankly, it seemed vain. It is said that Archbishop Fulton Sheen whom so many of us admire shaved twice each day! That beside the point, the following week, the beard was carefully coiffed as was the hair, closely shaved on the side with a little fluff on the top. Well, so what, we all like to look good, don’t we?

          Then, the following week, we decided the beard wasn’t working, so alas, again our clean-shaven priest.

          Is this guy following his faith or the crowd?

          I haven’t been back. Ave Maria.

          1. Seriously, you stopped going to Mass because of a beard????

            I’ve grown a beard 3 or 4 times during my life – and each time for a good reason. I wanted to save time shaving; I wanted to be less concerned about my appearance (I am told I am more attractive shaven); because it is ‘manly.’ Whatever. Each time, I stopped after a few weeks, because the initial advantages (notably saving time shaving) gave way to disadvantages in having to groom it (and having to be conscious about having to groom it) so it didn’t take over. The easiest thing was to shave it off.

            Thank heavens I’m not a priest with people in the pews having idiotic thoughts about the significance of my being shaven or not. Seriously! Haven’t you got better things to think about than that?

            1. “I’ve grown a beard 3 or 4 times during my life – and each time for a good reason. I wanted to save time shaving; I wanted to be less concerned about my appearance (I am told I am more attractive shaven); because it is ‘manly.’ Whatever. Each time, I stopped after a few weeks, because the initial advantages (notably saving time shaving) gave way to disadvantages in having to groom it (and having to be conscious about having to groom it) so it didn’t take over. The easiest thing was to shave it off.”

              Thanks for your edifying dissertation on beards.

              The intention of my post was not to push buttons but instead to expand upon Father Soster’s candor when he suggests that the way we purge the Church of corruption is to kick the “queers” out.

              As I pointed out referencing Padre Pio who seemed to have worn a beard throughout his adult life and priesthood, or by contrast, Archbishop Fulton Sheen always cleanly shaven, it is when a priest begins to consistently exhibits a tendency toward effeminate vanity that perhaps has given precedent to the “queers” infiltrating the Roman Catholic Church. Lest an eyebrow be raised, as Saint Catherine of Siena succinctly puts it, we are exhorted to silence which I don’t believe is your intent here.

              Our silence has become our complicity which has allowed queers to profane the Roman Catholic Church which for two thousand years has shaped civilization. It has also been our silence that has enabled Freemasonry to hijack our Church to the degree to which it is now, that our Holy See wholesales Rome to the evil globalist empire as he profiteers from Big Pharma abortion-tainted vaccines that he himself pushes like a rogue member of a Mexican drug cartel.

              Have you tried a mustache by any chance?

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  5. “I haven’t been back. Ave Maria.”

    I hope by that statement you meant you haven’t been back to Mass if that priest is the celebrant and not did not mean that you haven’t gone back to Mass anywhere period!
    As much as we dislike some of our clergy and disapprove of certain things about them they STILL have the power of Christ to give us the sacraments and to leave all that behind because we’re miffed about something says more about us then it does the priest. I would even go to Mass if the celebrant was Father James Martin SJ and was the only priest available. The worthiness of a man to be a priest does not reside in the man himself but in God.

    1. “I would even go to Mass if the celebrant was Father James Martin SJ and was the only priest available. The worthiness of a man to be a priest does not reside in the man himself but in God.”

      Thank you for your thoughtful response. Non sequitur. Perhaps the current, tragic crisis in the Roman Catholic Church is the result of God sifting us, showing us something we are blind to. Perhaps it is time to separate, to discern, the dogma from the catma?

      Consider this:

      Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.-Matthew iv. 10

      That, friend, is where the true Mass is. We must be able to discern between the bread and the stone. The only rock is Jesus Christ. It seems we haven’t figured that out yet.

    2. “I would even go to Mass if the celebrant was Father James Martin SJ and was the only priest available. The worthiness of a man to be a priest does not reside in the man himself but in God.

      Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Non sequitur.

      Might we consider that the current tragic crisis in the Roman Catholic Church is the hand of God trying to open our blind eyes? It is time to discern between the dogma and the catma, and to get in our Bibles which is what Jesus Christ teaches us to do. Otherwise, to place an institution before Him makes His Passion a farce.

      To profane the Holy Eucharist at the hands of the likes of Judas is heretical idolatry. Your Catholicism is Pharisaical legalism.

      “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”- Matthew iv. 10

      1. Peter is the rock upon which Christ founded his church. “Peter” is an anglicized version of “Petrus” which is a Latinized version of the Greek “Petros”, which is a masculinized form of “Petra,” meaning “Rock.” And Petra is a translation of the Aramaic Kepha, the name that Christ bestowed upon him when proclaiming him as the Rock upon which He would build His church, against which the gates of hell would not prevail. The man’s name was actually Shimon Bar-Jona, which translates as “Simon, Son of John.” The very fact that we call him Peter confirms that he is the rock of which Christ spoke in the above passage. Peter’s successors inherit that promise.

  6. “Here’s a thorn in my side that I haven’t yet resolved so as a result hold my Mass each Sunday at home and frankly, get more from the two hours I spend in absolute devotion to our Lord alone with Him …”

    Uh-oh. Alone with God on Sunday, “holding” her own Mass. Sola Scriptura with her own (sola) understanding of it. Uh-oh.

    1. A big Uh-oh

      Some of her previous post where thoughtful, but I must disagree 100% with her thinking that she is honoring God or Jesus by staying home and spending time alone reading the Bible. In doing so It becomes all about how she feels, what she gets and has missed the understanding of the sacrifice of the Mass.
      So basically what she is stating is she would rather satisfy her own desires, her own feelings rather than take part in adoring, thanking, offering reparation and petitioning God the Father through Christ his son during consecration and receiving his body, blood, soul and divinity in Holy Communion.
      Her rationale is not of the One Holy Catholic Church. It is protestant thinking.
      To stay away from Mass because you sit in judgement ,be it the TLM or NO of what people are wearing or physical appearance of a priest is not only sinful, it is scandalous.

      I agree that spending time in meditation of Christ , and reading of the Bible is necessary , I do not agree that it should be done instead of attending Mass or receiving Holy Communion. To do that , is to separate one from the Body of Christ within the Catholic Church.
      To profess such beliefs of staying home v attending Mass/ not receiving Communion because you “feel” better at home doing your own thing is not Catholic.

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