This statement was issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30). It was written by Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in America, along with Bishop A. Elias Zaidan and Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan. The St. Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship reads this through a distinctly Ukrainian Catholic experience—shaped by generations of environmental destr

Pastoral Letter of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to the Clergy, Religious, and all the Faithful of the UGCC I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you —Eph 1:16-18 Beloved in Christ

Pastoral Letter of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of 2020 to the clergy, religious, and laity Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers! Venerable Brothers and Sisters in Religious Life! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! I. “The poor you always have with you” (Jn 12:8): the faces and dimensions of poverty around us. 1. With the present Pastoral Letter of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, we, your Pastors, wish to direct our gaze, together with you, on

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

“Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites. —Numbers 35:33-34 Ever since the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, a progressive wing of newly-elected congresspeople have finally taken to environmental issues with the urgency that have long neede