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Azarien (October 30th, 2008 @ 12:10 pm)

Actually the council never literally said that. All it said was polical correctness from a good point of view, which can be interpreted in various ways as needed. The doctrine of the church has not changed in any way.

Iconodule (August 10th, 2008 @ 8:50 am)

All Catholics, whatever their particular Church or who their Bishop happens to be, fall under the jurisdiction of the Holy Father. Catholics of the Eastern Churches gain nothing by diminishing a fact which was acknowledged by the ancient Fathers of both the Eastern and Western portions of Christendom. It was the repudiation of this error which effected the re-union of certain Eastern Churches with the Holy See.

375015568 (July 9th, 2008 @ 12:22 am)

Just look at the hundreds of new churches that were built all over Ukraine! And more are being built. A new church was started in my father's time in 1930's, forbidden by the Soviet authorities, and finished in the 1990's. That's how the Ukrainian people win, and old soviet world loses! It's not just religion, but the return to Ukrainian traditions, Ukrainian culture and language. Cheers!

1962SatanTookOver (July 6th, 2008 @ 12:44 pm)

This is not the proper place to confess your sins. Please find a validly consecrated Priest, go to the confessional, confess your sins, obtain absolution, and sincerely perform your penance. BAD CONFESSIONS DO NOT ABSOLVE SINS, and MANY WHO ENTER ETERNITY IN HELL FAILED TO SINCERELY CONFESS THEIR SINS WITH REMORSE and real resolve to turn away from these sins in the future. Go confess your sins.

BombayRepertoire (June 24th, 2008 @ 5:41 pm)

confession: I was an alterboy in the company of some very fine and often intoxicated non-authoritarian Irish priests.... well, myself and a alterboy colleague one day took a unopened bag of unconsecrated hosts: only simply for an innocent "snack" (just like potato chips), that is all.... (these hosts were not consecrated).... just something funny in goodwill to all humanity that I should pass along.... never take religion too seriously.... be safe and sane and always avoid being a "martyr"....

galizien (March 11th, 2008 @ 11:03 am)

But I live in a country were Roman Catholics are mayoroty, and Byzantine Catholics are extreme minority. Our Eparchy counts only 6.500 belivers and we are only bishuporic in Roman Catholic Church.

julianhayda (March 10th, 2008 @ 1:19 pm)

thats a great example... although i like to think of the church more in communion with the pope instead of under the authority of the pope if you look at the popes title he is known as "patriarch of the west[ern church]" (recently that has been changed because roman catholics in other countries have been offended) our patriarch, Husar is equal with the pope being a patriarch, as are all other eastern patriarchs. when you call him a "cardinal" its degrading because cardinal is lower than pope

julianhayda (March 10th, 2008 @ 1:09 pm)

the problem is that we pretty much are orthodox, the only reason we are not is because we acknowlege the pope, everything else is based in orthodoxy Its a pretty new development in the eastern catholic churches to identify yourself as "catholic" and not orthodox because at the time of galician poland catholics wherent persecuted The only reason the ukrainians joined the catholic church in the late 1500s was political, to avoid russian war and if you read the union of brest we are orthodox

gypsijan (March 10th, 2008 @ 3:51 am)

You are so CORRECT julianhayda, and your comments can be backed up by the CTV telecast of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. When the cameras were on our very own and splendid Cardinal Husar, the commentary reflected that the Ukrainian Greek Cathlic church is the largest subdivision next to the Romans, and exact numbers were quoted. Cardinal Husar was resplendent. It was thrilling. And this was not a figment of the imagination.

darkcoven (February 20th, 2008 @ 2:13 am)

I emphatize with your comment bro/sis. To say that Catholic Divine Liturgy never existed in the Ukraine, is to say that there were no Catholic Masses in the Philippines. 4ernaja's comment is full of ignorance, and I suspect that it is a ploy of the schismatic "Orthodox" to discredit the faithful in Ukraine...

gypsijan (February 11th, 2008 @ 12:43 am)

Looks Ukrainian-Greek Catholic to me, and I'm from the USA. Such a thing does not exist in Ukraine? You mean anymore? Well, maybe they're making a comeback!

AnHonestChristian (January 29th, 2008 @ 10:01 pm)

You're absolutely right, especially right here in the U.S. My great-grandmother was actually Byzantine, and my dad described the big differences between her funeral mass b/t Eastern Catholicism and the Western Church.