Subdeacon Dr. Brian A. ButcherMetropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian StudiesThe University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto Introduction This essay revisits the question, “What Is Eastern Catholic Theology?”, raised at the Catholic Theological Society of America’s 1998 convention but the object of scant scholarly attention since.[1] The issue of … Читати далі
When I joined the Greek-Catholic Church, the irony was that I converted away from this conversionary network and even from this assimilationist understanding of being Asian American. In this way, I became more fully myself because I found myself increasingly less subjected, as we say about the Church of Ukraine, to these vectors of ideological colonization.
At Divine Liturgy, on the morning of Pascha, following a widespread custom evocative of Pentecost and transcending human boundaries, the prologue of the Gospel of John is proclaimed in a multitude of languages. The Resurrection and the Great Commission, the liturgy teaches us, are intrinsically tied. The Church is missionary by her very nature.
Today, with the virtual disappearance of a Christian intelligentsia in the Euro-Atlantic West and its failure to materialize in Ukraine, can there be any prospects for such a phenomenon in the latter country? There is no point in guessing. If Ukraine is to have a Christian culture, it must have a Christian intelligentsia.
Both in Ukraine and in the diaspora, societal attitudes towards women and women’s status can be complicated and deeply conflicted. Even in progressive institutions like UNWLA and UCU, and certainly within the traditional framework of the Catholic Church, the status of women seems to touch a raw nerve.
Review on the book Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe. Matthew Feldman and Marius Turda with Tudor Georgescu. London–New York: Routledge, 2008. xviii, 246 pp. After an introduction and an introductory chapter that prepare the way for a discussion of “interwar fascism in Europe,” fourteen articles focus on specific countries in three religious groupings: Orthodox Greece, … Читати далі
The following interview with EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was recently published by the Ukrainian greek-catholic magazine “The Patriarchate” (July-August, №4, 2016) – Two years ago more than 100 Ukrainians died under the flags of Ukraine and the European Union. It was a very strong gesture of sacrifice. But today in Ukraine we have … Читати далі
Dr Andrew SOROKOWSKY Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation “Gaudete et Exsultate: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World” (19 March 2018) is addressed to all of us. Its purpose is “to re-propose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time” (no. 2). Francis emphasizes that the call to holiness is for … Читати далі
Padraig Purcell Fr. Serge Keleher was one of the greatest friends of Ukraine who is not well known in Ukraine. I knew him for nineteen years and I am happy to share my personal impressions of this most remarkable person and priest. He did much to help oppressed believers, (who lived behind an ‘Iron Curtain’) … Читати далі