Ukrainian bishops address evangelization, youths, priestly formation

Published: 2007-10-09

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Ukrainian Catholic bishops focused on evangelization, priestly formation and youth ministry during their worldwide synod, said the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Kiev-Halych, Ukraine, said the bishops discussed broad issues that were meaningful to all their members in different countries. Because of the "historical emigration" of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, it is "a global church," he said. Synod members had to address major topics and "limit ourselves primarily to such issues that are meaningful" to "our faithful and to our church and where that church exists," Cardinal Husar said during a press conference at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington Oct. 5. Ukrainian Catholic bishops from around the world met in Philadelphia and Washington for their Sept. 26-Oct. 6 synod, the first Eastern Catholic synod to be held in the United States. Synod dates were chosen to coincide with the centennial celebration of the arrival of Bishop Stephen Ortynsky, the first Byzantine Catholic bishop in America.

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