In this interview originally published by Radio Vatican , Bishop Bohdan Dziurakh, the secretary of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Synod of Bishops, shares his thoughts on the new encyclical from the Pope of Rome, Francis’, titled “ Fratelli Tutti .” The interview was conducted by Svitlana Dukhovych and was translated with her permission for the St. Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship. Bishop Bohdan Dziurakh, secretary of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Synod, meets with Pope F

One’s sexual orientation does not depend on their Church. Nobody knows which orientation a child will take on at the time they are baptized.

To paraphrase Benedict XVI, Bonhoeffer, and the Ukrainian Catholic University motto, ‘Just do it’: Just pray. Just organize.

On March 10th 2019, Metropolitan Borys (Gudziak) was interviewed by Ruslan Petrychka on the Voice of America. His Eminence was recently named the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, whose jurisdiction covers the entire United States. Previously, he was the Ukrainian-Greek-Catholic Bishop of Paris and Western Europe. Bishop Borys was born, raised, and studied in the United States before moving to Ukraine in the 1990s to build the Ukrainian Catholic University.

In February of 2018, His Beatitude Sviatoslav was interviewed by Fr. Ihor Yatsiv on a TV talk show called “Open Church.” The theme of the hour was social justice. In bold are some of the questions posed by both Fr. Yatsiv and audience members. His Beatitudes’ answers are translated in full, except where denoted by ellipses. Patriarch Sviatoslav: When we talk only about a dignified wage, sometimes we set aside the notion of basic human dignity. We understand that a person isn’

The following are excerpts from an article on Pope Francis' meeting with Patriarch Sviatoslav, the original of which can be found here . His Beatitude Sviatoslav has told the Pope that the road travelled by the UGCC was a path of martyrdom, a “testimony of the unity that Christ’s Church enjoyed in the First Millennium, at the time of the Baptism of Saint Volodymyr, and a particular witness of martyrs and confessors for Church unity, – in the 20th century.” “Our Church’s path