Evangelizing post-communist, secular society By Michelle Martin – Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, 23 October 2011 Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, 41, was elected in March to lead the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an Eastern-rite…
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“The Church is Young” — Pope Benedict XVI (2005) The announcement that the Synod of Ukrainian Hierarchs had elected their youngest member, 40-year old Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, as Major-Archbishop (Patriarch) hit world…
Towards the future dialogue of the Churches
A CALL TO PRAYER AND FOR LIVING VOICES FOR JUSTICE Ukrainians throughout the world will commemorate the 77th anniversary of the genocidal famine, the “HOLODOMOR”, which was perpetuated by Joseph Stalin and the…
Fr John Salter, Chairman, in Chrysostom November All Saints 2010, writes: The Church of Jesus Christ is neither Latin, nor Greek, nor Slav, but Catholic; accordingly she makes no difference between her…
Billboards announcing Patriarch Kirill’s visit in Kyiv Patriarch Kirill of Moscow says that he and Benedict XVI often see eye-to-eye on many issues, especially with regard to those of a moral nature,…
Among History’s Vanished The archivist of the Oriental Congregation, Gianpaolo Rigotti’s recent article “Uomini e attività della Congregazione per la Chiesa Orientale tra i motu proprio Dei providentis (1917) e Sancta Dei…
From Risu: On April 8, 2010, at the press conference Prospects of Establishing One National Church in New Political Conditions, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret, expressed his…
Here is The Times obituary, which appeared on 25th January 2010: Vera Rich was an accomplished translator of Ukrainian and Belarussian literature and poetry. Born Faith Elizabeth Joan in 1936 in Canonbury,…
From Moscow, December 16, Interfax The Moscow Patriarchate is grateful to Pope Benedict XVI for understanding problems between the two Churches and not pressing on with visiting Russia and meeting with the…