“Our tradition is one that we have in common with our Orthodox brethren, but we live that tradition with the full communion with the successor of Peter.” Vatican City, Dec 3, 2013…
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Vatican City, 27 November 2013 (VIS) – At the end of the catechesis at today’s general audience, the Holy Father greeted Ukrainian pilgrims, Major Archbishop [Patriarch] Sviatoslav Shevchuk and the bishops and…
Ukrainian Catholics have protested against the Government’s refusal to sign the planned association agreement between Ukraine and the EU and called for a renewal of talks with Brussels. “The national interests of…
A famous sermon delivered in 1900 by a leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has been classified as “extremist” literature, the Forum 18 news service reports. The sermon entitled “The True…
Ecumenism is growing “from the bottom up,” the leader of the world’s largest Eastern-rite Catholic Church said in an interview with Vatican Insider. Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said that…
A Divine Liturgy was held on Monday at the Altar of the Confession of the Vatican Basilica, in honor of Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr, whose relicts were placed exactly fifty years…
November 25, 2013. (Romereports.com) More than 3,000 pilgrims from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church welcomed Pope Francis, amid applause at St. Peter’s Basilica. The ceremony took place to mark the 50th anniversary since…
Patriarch Sviatoslav at St Peter’s Vatican City, 25 November 2013 (VIS) – “St. Thomas Aquinas teaches us that each person will love his neighbour as he loves himself, and will therefore enjoy…
Congratulations to our good friend, Fr James Siemens of the Eparchy of the Holy Family here in the UK, and to his people, who have founded a new Byzantine Catholic (Ukrainian Greek Catholic…
This year the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) in Kazakhstan, which has a long and dramatic history in this country, experienced a significant event. On September 15 in the capital Astana the…