Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Father Kirill Gorbunov, who is also vicar general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow, said that “the majority of the people are suffering” and that “after a year of war [with Ukraine], there is no foreseeable solution.” “It seems that the Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Russia-Ukraine war’
Spokesman for Russian Catholic bishops: ‘There is no foreseeable solution’ to Ukraine war
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023Catholic priest from Ukraine gives Pope Francis cross made out of war rubble
Monday, February 27th, 2023Father Vyacheslav Grynevych vividly remembers the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine one year ago. The Catholic priest woke up to a phone call: “Father, wake up because the war has started.” “I understood that my life would never be the same as before,” Grynevych said. A few days ahead of the Read more
Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury and Church of Scotland promote legality of homosexuality
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
Pope Francis has again expressed his stance against the criminalisation of homosexuality and confirmed his support for LGBTQ rights. During his flight from South Sudan to Rome, he stated, “God loves people with homosexual tendencies. To condemn them is a sin. Criminalising them is an injustice.” Pope Francis’ comments came in response to laws criminalising Read more
Ukrainian Catholic leader gives Pope Francis Russian mine fragment
Thursday, November 10th, 2022The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church gave Pope Francis a piece from an exploded Russian mine during a visit to the Vatican on Monday. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk is in Rome this week to speak with Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia about the war in Ukraine. It is his first Read more
Russia’s rape of Ukraine girls, boys and women: chilling
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Supplying Russian soldiers with Viagra and condoning the rape of Ukrainian women, men and children is being jointly criticised by the UN and Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. Their stories “simply break the heart, make the blood run cold in your veins. “This war will go down in history as one in which Russia uses sexual Read more
It’s ‘madness’ to think of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine says Pope
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
It is madness, said Pope Francis when he heard Russia was threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West he is not bluffing about using the weapons of mass destruction. He ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two and backed a plan to annex swathes of Read more
God must never be held hostage to human thirst for power
Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Pope Francis says God must never “be held hostage to the human thirst for power”, and religion must never be used to justify the “evil” of war. An implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who backs the invasion of Ukraine and has boycotted a conference of faith leaders, the Pope made his views plain Read more
CathNews columnist blacklisted by the Ukraine government
Monday, August 15th, 2022
I have been blacklisted by the Ukraine government. The Center for Countering Disinformation, an agency of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine – which advises the president of Ukraine – has compiled a list of over 78 international figures who are accused of promoting so-called “Russian propaganda.” And I happen to be included Read more
Ukrainian archbishop pushes back on Francis’ war-cause comments
Monday, June 20th, 2022
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has pushed back on Pope Francis’ comments that Russia was possibly provoked by NATO into invading Ukraine. “The gift of reason from the Holy Spirit is so necessary in today’s world so that the devil’s wiles do not deceive the human person,” said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head Read more
Silence kills: continue to speak out on Ukraine
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
Silence kills, and the Ukrainian Catholic Church is urging the world to continue to speak out about Ukraine’s struggle to survive. Major Archbishop Svietoslav Shevchuk’s appeal comes as Ukraine’s largest Orthodox church (UOC) reasserts its independence from the Moscow Patriarchate. “We are seeing today how silence can kill,” Shevchuk says. Everyone who chooses to stay Read more