Does Cardinal Blase Cupich support LGBTQ people?

Cardinal Blase Cupich has called for more inclusion of LGBTQ people in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2015 he participated in Pope Francis’s synod on the family in Rome. During the synod Cupich told the National Catholic Reporter that the church should seek more dialogue with divorced Catholics and LGBTQ people rather than preach “fixed doctrines” against divorce and homosexuality. In 2023, when the Vatican issued a document allowing for the blessing of same-sex couples under certain conditions, Cupich called it “a step forward.”