Thursday, March 16, 2006
POPE AFFIRMS UNITY WITH GREEK CATHOLICS IN UKRAINE
Made public Thursday was a letter sent by the Pope to Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians, that highlights the strong bond of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church to Rome.
The letter, dated February 22, Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, was sent to mark "the sad events to which the cathedral of St. George at Leopoli was witness, in March of sixty years ago," Pope Benedict XVI said, and recalls how in the cathedral in March 1946, "a group of prelates meeting in a pseudo-synod which took upon itself the right to represent the Church, made a serious attack against ecclesial unity. Violence against those who remained faithful to the Bishop of Rome intensified, giving rise to further suffering and forcing the Church to descend once again to the catacombs."
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