The first time he had an opportunity to reshape the Catholic hierarchy in the United States, Pope Francis turned to an obscure bishop in Spokane, Wash., and in 2014 made him archbishop of Chicago, the third-largest diocese in the country, with about 2.3 million Catholics.
Francis famously said that he was looking for shepherds who smell like their sheep, and he found that in Blase Cupich.
In a recent “Face to Faith” podcast interview with Cupich, we get a window into the mind of the man that Pope Francis made a cardinal in 2016.
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