Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Archives

Marriage doesn’t solve the priest shortage, says head of Ukrainian Rite

Vatican
Sep 12, 2019

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has urged those considering allowing priests in the Latin rite to marry in order to help solve a crippling vocation crisis to proceed with caution, saying marriage has not curbed shortages in his own rite.

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.

Synods are not for deal-making, but for listening to Spirit, pope says

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Sep 3, 2019

Before a synod, bishops must learn what their people want and think and need, not so they can change church teaching, but so they can preach the Gospel more effectively, Pope Francis told the bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

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.

Ukrainian archbishop rules out ‘appeasement’ as fighting flares again

Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
Aug 16, 2019

As fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine, the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church warned against “appeasing the aggressor” in the five-year war against Russian-backed separatists.

If Pope Francis visits Ukraine, the war would stop, archbishop says

Church in Europe
Jul 8, 2019

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has said that if Pope Francis were to visit Ukraine, the conflict tearing its eastern regions apart would come to an end.