14 June 2018, 08:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Five Objections to a Patriarchate – and Five Responses

… in view of the prospect of an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox patriarchate … recognition of a UGCC patriarchate may be timely.

3 May 2018, 11:32 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Autocephaly in a Nutshell

… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…

19 March 2018, 14:52 | Comments

The world is thirsty for peace

Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and president of a consulting firm dealing with international affairs

1 March 2018, 21:06 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Are More Religions Better?

Orthodox competition has increased throughout Ukraine since 2000. But has religiosity increased?

27 February 2018, 15:27 | Open theme | 

Re-registration of religious organizations in ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’: mockery of freedom of conscience

While some church entities in Ukraine are vocal in declaring persecution and unacceptable interference of Ukrainian state authorities into internal church affairs, some very interesting processes are developing in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region (hereinafter “LNR”) that suggest comparison with Ukrainian “persecutions”.

8 January 2018, 23:28 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Two Christmases

Shifting Orthodox Christmas to December would symbolize a distancing from the Russian Orthodox Church and thus from Russia herself. It would mean a rapprochement with the West...

6 December 2017, 08:31 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

A Conflict of Laws

The UOC’s practice of amending the charters of its organizations in accord with Russian rather than Ukrainian law casts a doubtful light on current statements about the supposed autonomy or even autocephaly of the UOC.

18 October 2017, 08:08 | Analysis | 

Laws on reintegration of Donbas: a wake-up call for UOC-MP

At one time, Metropolitan Onufriy, the Primate of the UOC-MP, when asked about Russia's aggression in the Crimea, answered as he probably considered the top of moderation: “I'm not a politician, I cannot answer this question.”

5 October 2017, 14:29 | James Siemens' column | 

Reclaiming Orthodoxy

As a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church living in Cardiff, Wales, I am faced by the challenge of identifying myself on a regular basis.

16 August 2017, 09:23 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Fears and Phobias

Ukrainian autocephaly is a threat to the Moscow Patriarchate’s control of East Slavic Orthodoxy. And the Moscow Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical control over Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Belarus is an important element of the Kremlin’s political control over those countries.

7 July 2017, 13:28 | Interview | 

Timothy Snyder about history, Church, and Ukraine

6 July 2017, 16:33 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Volhynia, Fatima, and the Donbas

The Russian aggression in the Donbas is neither similar nor analogous to the Polish-Ukrainian war. To imply that that the former is divine retribution for the latter is to misstate the moral equities, for it has been acknowledged that the Volhynian atrocities were mutual.

8 June 2017, 21:28 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Two Drafts — and the Winds of Change

Draft Laws 4128 and 4511 have arisen in the context of a politicization of religion in conditions of the Russian war against Ukraine, and of the flurry of defections from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate

1 June 2017, 11:10 | Open theme |

Lubomyr (Husar) about himself, the Church and the world. Selected quotes

“We all need love”: His Beatitude Lubomyr blessed memory, who lived with 60 years on earth was a priest, becoming the nation's moral authority

12 May 2017, 14:37 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Witnesses to Persecution

One might ask why a nation of some 144,000,000 would risk its international reputation to persecute a religious sect numbering no more than 175,000 followers.

6 April 2017, 09:31 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

From Crypto-Christians to Pseudo-Orthodox?

…resentment of alleged Western Christian hostility and feelings of victimization are a common motif in Russian Orthodox thinking.

24 March 2017, 12:46 | Michael Cherenkov's column

Reformation In Ukraine: From Martin Luther To Ivan Ryaboshapka

Marking the jubilee of Reformation this year, one should think not only about their Reformation, but also about our Reformation, about ourselves, about the relationship between Western and Eastern Christian traditions, between Europe and Ukraine.

8 March 2017, 14:30 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Russian Catholics: Challenging the Stereotypes

…the appointment of an apostolic exarch for Russian Catholics … could thus pave the way for a union of the Ukrainian Orthodox with the church of Rome.

7 February 2017, 21:55 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Praying for Peace or Condoning a Crime?

If the priests from St. Petersburg truly wished to pray for peace, wouldn’t it have been more efficient to travel to Moscow and pray for peace before the Kremlin?

2 February 2017, 10:01 | Interview | 

The Havana Declaration Broke International Silence on the War in Ukraine — Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk)

An important result of the Havana encounter was that our Church initiated a conversation with the Apostolic See [on these points]. Certainly, even before this event, we always strove to inform the Vatican regarding the truth concerning the war in Ukraine.