Pope Benedict XVI on Monday said he plans on resigning the papal office on February 28th. Below please find his announcement. |
A formal decree approving St Mary of the Cross
MacKillop as second patron of Australia has been received by the
president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop
Denis Hart, reports The Catholic Weekly. |
The Catholic Church says the draft
anti-discrimination laws fail by not recognising religious freedom is a
fundamental human right, not a special permission to discriminate
granted by government, reports The Canberra Times. |
Using the words
of prophet Isaiah "God is with us” with
all my heart I would like to greet you
for the feast of Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
Let us remember that UGCC Synod of
Bishops that took place on September 9-16 in Winnipeg (Canada) answered
the initiative of His Holiness the Holy Father, and pronounced 2013 as
the Year of Faith in UGCC and created an Organizing Committee which was
charged with planning appropriate spiritual events on an all-Church
basis in the context of the 1025 Jubilee Commemoration of the Baptism of
Rus-Ukraine, according to the Communiqué of the Synod of Bishops 2012. |
Archbishop Paul Gallagher is to be the new Papal
Nuncio to Australia, the Vatican has announced. The British-born
archbishop, 58, is currently the Nuncio to Guatemala in central America. |
In Zagreb, the bishops representing 14 Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in
Europe will tackle the following themes: The Second Vatican Council and
the Eastern Catholic Churches; the Catechism of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church; the Code of Canon Law of the Oriental Churches; and the
celebrations planned for the Year of Faith in the Eastern Catholic
Churches. |
The
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference says it supports the
announcement of a Royal Commission by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to
investigate decades of child abuse in churches, schools and foster
homes, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. |
Vatican Radio Finding new ways to preach the Gospel, especially in
lands that have already received it, and to cultures that have been
penetrated and formed by it, is one of the central points of focus for
the Fathers of the XIII Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. |
The synod of bishops on the New Evangelisation has
released a message that emphasises hope in the face of an increasingly
secular culture, because Christ promises salvation, reports the Catholic
News Agency. |
His Beatitude Sviatoslav stated that today in Ukraine, close to 40% of
the inhabitants are not evangelized. "They feel some craving for God
but have yet reached a full understanding of a Christian life,” noted
the UGCC Primate. |
"Today, not only the historic embassy of Ukrainian spirituality in Italy
has been revived, but also our homeland became closer to thousands of
Ukrainians who live far away from their native country,” 45-year-old
Tetiana tells The Day with excitement about the consecration of one of
the greatest Christian sanctuaries – Santa Sofia a Via Boccea in Rome. |
All Catholics in the Archdiocese are invited to join with the rest of
our Archdiocesan family for a day of inspiration, prayer and renewal in
this Year of Grace. Bishop Peter Comensoli, Auxiliary Bishop of the
Archdiocese of Sydney, will be our keynote speaker on the theme of
Grace. |
This Papal Synod is also attended by two UGCC bishops who were selected
as representatives during the UGCC Synod of Bishops last year, which
took place in Brazil: Bishop Taras (Senkiv), the Apostolic Administrator
of Stryj Eparchy and Bishop Dionysus (Liakhovych) Apostolic Visitator
for Ukrainian Greek –Catholics in Italy and Spain. As was
communicated, Archbishop Nykola Eterovych, General Secretary Of the
Synod of Bishops, was following an earlier approval by the Holy Father,
delegated experts and observers to this Synod meeting. Among the
experts is also Sister Luiza Tsiupa SSMI, the vice-chair of the UGCC
Catechetical Commission . |
In the documents the Church heads voiced their doubts about the
effectiveness of an economical policy of non-intrusive and ethical
liberalism. |
The Gift of Family in Difficult Times: The social and economic challenges facing families today |
In response to the initiative of Pope Benedict XVI, the Synod of Bishops
of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church held in Winnipeg proclaimed 2013
the Year of the Faith in the UGCC and set up an organizing committee to
plan spiritual events in the context of the 1025th anniversary of the
Baptism of Rus-Ukraine, the Communicate of the Synod says. |
The bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church proclaimed Blessed
Martyr Volodymyr Pryima patron of the laymen of UGCC and encouraged all
the faithful to venerate the holy laymen of the Ukrainian Church. |
During this discussion, the bishops gratefully noted the dedication and
sacrifice of UGCC laity throughout the history of the Church, especially
its role in preserving their faith in difficult social-political
realities of the last century – four waves of emigration and the
persecution of the Church in its native land.
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At the entrance to the church the Synod participants were greeted by
Rev. Bohdan Lukie CSsR, pastor of St. Joseph’s parish. He handed His
Beatitude Sviatoslav the personal cross of the Blessed Bishop and Martyr
Mykyta Budka, whose centennial of arriving in Canada is commemorated by
the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Canada this year. |
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