By The Rev. Andriy Chirovsky
...Moscow considers the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (click here) to constitute the great wound between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Disparagingly referring to the members of this dynamic Church as “uniates,” Moscow consistently complains of “violent takeovers of churches” in western Ukraine by these Eastern Catholics.
This has been going on since the de-criminalization of the Greek Catholic Church on December 1, 1989 (the day that Mikhail Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II).
But Moscow’s case fails on two very important points....
Ukraine does have a strong religious ethic. They do look to Pope Francis for hope in their lives.
