CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
BY MICHAEL SNEED September 20, 2014
The pope’s pick . . .
The new leader of Chicago’s Roman Catholic flock, Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Washington, is being likened to the man who chose him.
“ln a pastoral sense, Cupich is like Pope Francis,” said Mark Rowlands, a former Roman Catholic seminarian from Columbus, Ohio, where Cupich had been president-rector of the Pontifical Josephinum College years ago.
“He is a humble man. Spiritual. Not pompous,” Rowlands said. “You never got the feeling you were watching a play about a guy getting dressed up in clerical frippery.
“He was approachable, a good listener . . . not an episcopal thinker who wore French cufflinks and thought himself a prince of the church . . . and certainly not into the trappings of office,” added Rowlands, who described the selection of Cupich as a “left-field choice.”
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