Tag: War in Ukraine
Pope Francis asks for prayers for Ukraine
The pontiff spent time talking about the situation in Ukraine, asking the young people present in the square to pray intensely.
Russian forces fear Ukrainian identity, persecute Ukrainian Catholics, says exiled bishop
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.
Ukrainians celebrate Easter with prayers turned to a homeland engulfed by...
The Ukrainian Catholic Church has seen larger than usual congregations as Australian-born Ukrainians and new migrants gather to pray for peace in their homeland
George Weigel: The very bloody Russian way
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.
