Chicago’s ​Archbishop Cupich​ will be off to Rome for the October synod on the family — as an alternate delegate. One other alternate, the archbp of San Francisco, was also approved by the Vatican.

The delegates are Archbishop Kurtz of Louisville, bishops’ conference president; Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia, host of the World Meeting of Families in September; Cardinal DiNardo of Galveston-Houston; and Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles.​