Tag: Ukraine

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

After a year of terrible war in Ukraine and disastrous floods closer to home, in which people have lost loved ones, homes, livelihoods, where...

Just arriving in Australia after fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion was more than many refugees could have dreamt of. Little did they know when...

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

Leading iconographer and artist Michael Galovic has created his own deeply-felt response to the war in Ukraine in his latest work, Ukraine Response. The artwork...

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.

Sydney Catholic Schools is opening its doors and heart to families fleeing war-torn Ukraine to find safety and a future The three things Mark Koshel...

In Western Ukraine, about 100 kilometres from the Polish border, is the city of Drohobych. It’s an historic town, with antique wooden churches and the initials of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I over the post office. Like many cities in Western Ukraine, its cobblestones have been drenched with blood century after century: Polish, Ukrainian, Nazi, Soviet, Jewish.

Chairman of Catholic Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust Greg Smith made the donation following a special twilight prayer service for Ukraine held at the Mary, Mother of Mercy Chapel in Rookwood Catholic Cemetery, on 8 April led by vicar general of the Ukrainian Catholic eparchy, Fr Simon Ckuj.

Ukrainian Catholic leaders say they have been deeply moved by the tremendous support and prayers of all Australian Catholics amid the ongoing horror and devastation caused by the current war with Russia.

For years, the two leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church with whom Pope Francis met by videoconference on 16 March — Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, and Metropolitan Hilarion, the Church’s chief ecumenical officer — have worked to buttress Vladimir Putin’s efforts to reconstitute a simulacrum of the Soviet Union in the name […]

https://youtu.be/YFS9W8Z-NDY As Russia's violent month-long invasion continued to devastate Ukraine, Pope Francis laid the fates of both countries at the feet of Mary in the...