Theology

The Speech by Archbishop Fisher, OP Photos Photos by Giovanni Portelli Thank you very much for those kind words of introduction. It is a great pleasure to be asked to speak a few words at the launch of the English translation of the ...

    7th October 2015   Слава Ісусу Христу! During 2015, we have had three significant gatherings of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. In April, we had the Eparchial Sobor, in August the Patriarchal Sobor, and in September the Synod of ...

We, the delegates of the VI session of UGCC Patriarch Council gathered in Ivano-Frankivsk, Pre-Carpathian region on the 25th-27th of August 2015, headed by Father and Head of UGCC His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, when discussing the topic “Vibrant Parish – ...

Your Beatitude, Reverend Fathers, and Sisters It is my intention to introduce this paper on the contemporary implications of the catechumenate with some introductory remarks on what I believe is its most suitable context that is evangelisation. I will then ...

This short paper discusses the function and role of the deacon in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. It does not set out make judgements about how the deacon functions in the various other Churches of the Eastern, far less does it ...

(Adapted from the website of the Eparchy of Edmonton) The kiss of peace is one of the most primitive rites of the Christian liturgy. Robert F. Taft, S.J. Introduction and History In early Christianity the Kiss of Peace was a ...

History of Rus-Ukraine teaches that it is precisely the Ukrainian people who are the new Christ’s people, who were born in the baptismal waters of Dnipro.  As Epiphany on the Jordan was preceded by the Nativity of the Son of ...

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, having long suffered under Communist persecution, flourished once the Iron Curtain finally fell. The strength of this Eastern rite extends to the growing Ukrainian diaspora, particularly in Canada. In 2011, when the Ukrainian bishops needed ...

Poverty, and my contribution to continuing the cycle. Chances are we go to church on Sunday. We pray and we believe in God. Most of us do not really consider that we personally contribute to poverty. How would you feel if your father ...