Bishop Borys Gudziak Archives

Archbishop mounts pressure for papal visit to Ukraine, says Moscow getting in the way

Church in Europe, Vatican
Sep 5, 2019

Bishop Borys Gudziak, one of nearly 50 Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops in Rome this week, has said he and his fellow prelates are pushing harder than ever for a papal visit to Ukraine – a trip he said is crucial to ending conflict in the country, but which is being held up by fear of potential reprisal from Russia.

Annual Marian pilgrimage draws hundreds to abandoned town in Pa.

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 31, 2019

About 500 pilgrims came to a small church on the side of a Pennsylvania mountain Aug. 25 to pray for peace.

Five bishops to lead Marian pilgrimage at historic Pennsylvania church

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 22, 2019

With the mass shootings that have taken place in this country in recent weeks and “the state of our society in our big cities and small towns,” this is a time “when we all need to turn to God,” said the pastor of a historic Ukrainian Catholic church in Pennsylvania.

Gudziak: Celebrate America’s blessings, pray for its ‘spiritual’ strength

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 4, 2019

Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia reminded clergy, religious and the faithful what a blessing it is to be an American this Independence Day.

Ukrainian Catholics discuss future of their church in North America

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 11, 2019

Ukrainian Catholics in North America continue to struggle to develop ways to maintain their Ukrainian religious and ethnic identity amid a larger majority culture that beckons with the siren song of assimilation.