“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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Read the Rome Reports article, here: The Vatican and the Holodomor, the Ukrainian genocide, eighty years later
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…
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…
On the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Holodomor—the man-made, Stalin-era famine in Ukraine and adjacent Cossack territories in 1932 and 1933, during which millions died of starvation—His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon…
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…
Vatican City, 24 November 2013 (VIS) – Following the closing Mass of the Year of Faith, Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “Before concluding this…
NEW YORK – In the summer of 1941, when the German occupation of Lviv unleashed terror on the city’s residents, Kurt Lewin, the son of a prominent rabbi, made his way to…
Rome, November 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) | In preparation for the 80thanniversary of the 1932-33 famine in the Ukraine the country’s churches have issued a statement. The famine was part of the terror…