Eastern bishop says he wanted to 'get the drift' of Latin churches

Published: 2004-05-28

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When he made his "ad limina" visit in late May, Bishop Richard S. Seminack stood out in the group of 28 bishops from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The bishop heads the Ukrainian Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago and was the only bishop from an Eastern church in the group that came to the Vatican May 23-29. Although many of the Vatican congregations he visited with the group have no jurisdiction over the Ukrainian or other Eastern Catholic churches, "I went along to get the drift of what is going on in the Latin church," he told Catholic News Service May 27. The Congregation for Eastern Churches -- which Bishop Seminack visited on his own -- handles the same issues that the congregations for bishops, clergy, Catholic education and religious handle for the Catholic Church's Latin-rite majority.

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