Cupich v Gomez et al.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain

The Pillar has a sufficient take on the bishop brouhaha.

• Gomez: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/us-bishop-responses-to-gomez-statement
• Cupich (soup-itch): https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-cardinals-tweetstorm-after-cardinal

In 2017, Cupich lost an election for chair of the conference’s important pro-life committee by only 14 votes. Some observers suggested that the cardinal was building a coalition of bishops who would support him in an eventual bid for leadership of the conference, and that his showing in that committee race, even while he didn’t win, was evidence of a conference divided between bishops of different worldviews, points of emphasis, or theological approaches. 

But less than four years later, that suggestion no longer seems to hold. When the cardinal would seem most to need public signs of support from his brother bishops, he has not yet found any.

Cardinal Cupich might do well to reflect on Pope Francis' comments:

Using especially strong language on one of his favorite themes, Pope Francis decried a plague of careerism among priests and urged them to renounce their personal ambitions for service to the church — warning that failure to do so would make them look “ridiculous.”

“Careerism is a leprosy, a leprosy,” the pope said June 6, in a speech to students from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, the school for future Vatican diplomats. “Please, no careerism!” - Vatican City (CNS)

The Holy Father, in his attempt to make a point, might have chosen a different descriptor. Scourge, for example, instead of leprosy? At least one World Health Organization representative thought so.

WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa (wrote) to Pope Francis, expressing his concern that the Pope's remark [...] that "Careerism is a leprosy" will reinforce discrimination against people affected by leprosy and their families. - Tokyo, June 13, 2013 CNW

The point being that careerism among members of the clergy is highly undesirable.

Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, we beseech Thee to grant unto Thy shepherds an increase of virtue: an abundance of wisdom and charity, and an increase of conformity to Thy sovereign will. Have mercy on Thy Church, O Lord. Help us to abandon ourselves to Thy unchanging truth so that we may be spared the unending fires of hell and, upon the completion of our earthly sojourn, enjoy with Thee the joy of Thy Presence in an everlasting peace. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.