Tag: Ukraine

"Unity rooted in truth has the power to stop evil," said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and head of the nation's Ukrainian Catholics, following a tense exchange 28 February on live television at the White House among US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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.

Australia’s new cardinal, His Eminence, Cardinal Mykola Bychok, presided over Vespers at the Domus Australia chapel on the evening following his elevation to the College of Cardinals. He told a full chapel that the rosary is a “spiritual sword” and that “the intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God that empowers all of us to fight 'the good fight.'”

Bishop Mykola Bychok CSrR, Eparch of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Australia and Oceania, was made the Catholic Church’s youngest cardinal by Pope Francis in a solemn yet joyous ceremony in Rome on 7 December.

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.

Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican 11 October, four months after their last meeting, the Vatican press office announced.

Pope Francis has expressed his continued sorrow over the war in Ukraine while asking that "no Christian church be abolished" after the Ukrainian parliament passed a law to ban the Moscow Patriarchate-affiliated jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed,” Samuel Johnson once wrote. In that spirit, George Weigel offers some “reminders” to sceptics and waverers on the war in Ukraine.

"Our church was liquidated in the occupied territories," said Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk in a 25 June interview with media outlet Ukrinform.

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.

Pope Francis called for Ukraine to have the "courage of the white flag," a term usually associated with surrender, drawing the ire of the embattled country's leaders