Tag: Russia

Hundreds of people flocked to the St Mary’s Cathedral forecourt to commemorate the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a “theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck” that helps to define Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine, writes George Weigel.

The Venerable Andrei Sheptytsky, who died 80 years ago on 1 November 1944, was one of 20th century Catholicism’s outstanding figures, whose remarkable life and heroic ministry as leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church spanned 43 years.

The war in Ukraine has now reached 1,000 days. A fact that the top diplomat of the Holy See hopes will provoke "a jolt of responsibility" to stop, as he defined, "this carnage."

Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Pope Francis' envoy for peace in Ukraine, returned to Moscow in mid-October for meetings with Russian government officials and leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Russian forces, like the Soviet Union's KGB intelligence agency, persecute the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church due to its Ukrainian identity, said Bishop Stepan Meniok, a Redemptorist and bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's Donetsk Exarchate.

A recent document from the Russian Orthodox Church under Patriarch Kirill attempts to spiritualise and sanctify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Holy See would do well to rally Christian leaders to condemn the notion that Russia is waging a “holy war” and has a special mission from God in the 21st century, writes George Weigel.

Russian clergy and lay Catholics were “caught by surprise” by the pope’s remarks in a video call on 25 August to a youth gathering...

Bishop Mykola Bychok, the eparch for Ukrainian Catholics in Australia, announced the change to the Gregorian calendar on 22 March

On the first anniversary of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke about gratitude and powerlessness in the...

Earlier this year, I had the honour and pleasure of being introduced to Hatfield House, ancestral home of the Marquesses of Salisbury, by the...

CRACOW - Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys a democratic legitimacy absent from Russia for two decades — what have we learned about, and from, the Russian way of war? We have learned that the Russian way of war is inept strategically, tactically and logistically: an army using inferior equipment, bereft of competent non-commissioned officers, and replete with ill-trained draftees; an army that relies on brute force to bludgeon its way toward its objectives.