20 Jule 2013, 17:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Russian, Ukrainian, or Kyivan?

The Russian Orthodox Church Department of External Affairs has announced that the cross of St. Andrew from Patras, Greece will travel to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus this summer on the occasion of the 1025th anniversary of the “Baptism of Russia.”

19 Jule 2013, 18:30 | Interview

George Weigel: “The Church in Europe Should Stop Thinking of Being 'Triumphant'"

George Weigel, a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals, visited Ukraine this July. He participated in the symposium “The Church in the Twentieth Century: Challenges of Service in a Globalized World” at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).

15 Jule 2013, 13:40 | James Siemens' column | 

Our Cultural Context: The Seedbed of Mission and Wellspring of Faith

To be sure, the fullness of the Christian life is found, expressed, and shared best when the liturgy of the Altar and the Liturgy of the world are lived as a unity, when the harmony of the exitus et reditus is appreciated and embraced.

2 Jule 2013, 08:48 | Analysis | 

New Challenges in Orthodoxy in Ukraine – Will There Be New Responses?

The summer-fall of 2013 will likely be the hottest in the life of Orthodoxy in Ukraine in the past ten years.

22 June 2013, 13:15 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

The ecology of faith

In a recent blog, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Nuncio of the Holy See to Ukraine, takes issue with Sherry Weddell’s book on discipleship in the Catholic Church (“A Personal Relationship with Christ?”). He defends the importance of the “Volkskirche,” or “cultural Catholicism,” which should not be abandoned in favor of a purely personal religion.

18 June 2013, 13:00 | James Siemens' column | 

On being Ukrainian Greek Catholic, or, Why a Twenty-First Century Canadian of Pan-European Extraction Would Choose the Church on the Dnieper

First of all, when I enter the Liturgy of my Church, I know that I am stepping into a piece of divine drama that has been unfolding on the same stage, and according to the same directions, for close to two thousand years. As a Protestant friend of mine once commented after she had experienced her first Divine Liturgy: ‘I feel like I am at least a thousand years closer to Jesus’.

4 June 2013, 12:00 | James Siemens' column | 

With what shall we evangelise? Ukrainian Greek Catholics and their role in the Universal Church

For Ukrainian Christians have something the world wants, and by its faithful celebration, will set fire to the light that draws all people unto God. Then the world may say as they encounter it, as did St Wolodymyr’s courtiers, that they ‘…knew not whether they were in heaven or on earth’.

3 June 2013, 15:56 | Analysis | 

A Brief Reflection On The Urgency Of Language And Inculturation Within The UGCC Abroad

I am a Ukrainian Greek Catholic without Ukrainian roots, and an American married to an Austrian living in country where my native tongue is not spoken and serving in a Ukrainian parish, whose traditions, language, saints and culture are very dear to my heart.

28 May 2013, 10:37 | Comments | 

More to it than that, Liturgy

Personally, Father Siemens perplexes me as much as do folk within our "Latin" Tradition, for it seems to me they are thinking rather in terms of linguistic comprehension as the principal if not only vehicle in Divine Worship for carrying us to God.

24 May 2013, 17:13 | James Siemens' column

The Language of the Liturgy: Speaking God’s Kingdom

...it suggests that Ukrainian tradition resides in more than just language – as important as language is – and so expands the call on the Church to seize every opportunity to go, and make disciples of all nations.

21 May 2013, 09:09 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

The New Blasphemy

The blasphemous stunts of FEMEN would merit little attention were they not part of a global trend. While blasphemy is nothing new, only recently has it become a form of public protest, gaining the attention of the press. But what does it mean? And how should Christians react?

25 April 2013, 13:30 | Comments | 

The New Evangelization: Baptizing/Rebaptizing a Culture

Andrew Sorokowski's column entitled "Rebaptizing Rus'" is both timely and valuable from several points of view.

22 April 2013, 07:48 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Rebaptizing Rus’

Is there something odd about celebrating the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’? Isn’t it enough to observe bigger, “rounder” dates? Why should the Church go to the trouble of putting on a major spectacle every 25 years, when there are other anniversaries to remember?

25 March 2013, 11:59 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Implications of the new pontificate

With the election of Pope Francis on March 13, Ukrainians naturally started looking for a “Ukrainian angle”.

19 February 2013, 11:50 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Canonically canadian

“That’s uncanonical!” One often hears this objection, directed to everything from icons to patriarchates, in the Orthodox world. What does it really mean?