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Ukrainian Catholic community in UK count the costs and kindnesses at two-year anniversary of Russian invasion

February 22, 2024

In the basement of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in central London is the Ukrainian Welcome Centre that has been serving refugees since the start of a war that is about to enter its third year. The two-year anniversary is fast approaching in two day’s time on 24 February, giving Ukrainian refugees who have had to

Peeling vegetables in Ukraine under the auspices of Just War Theory: a young Catholic volunteer reflects

January 11, 2024

Towards the end of last year, I made the decision to travel to Ukraine to spend over a week in the city of Lviv to help with the Ukrainian war effort. Inspired by the Catholic Just War doctrine, I felt compelled to actively help Ukraine rather than simply donating from back home in the UK.

Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion

December 28, 2023

At the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, Pope Francis at Christmas offered a message of hope, saying Jesus’s birth brings light to a dark world and his littleness shows the path of salvation, through humility and love. Though he also took to task

Pope condemns hitting civilian targets after Caritas warehouse destroyed by Russians in Lviv

September 20, 2023

ROME – Pope Francis has condemned the routine use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson, sent the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of humanitarian aid was destroyed in a Russian drone attack. In his Sept. 19 message, the pope pointed to what he

What life is really like for Ukraine’s children and youth

April 24, 2023

(In the cellar of a Kyiv kindergarten, children take shelter during an air raid | Genya SAVILOV / AFP via Getty) In my twenty-five years as a teacher and executive at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), various events have been worthy of international attention, but none like the surreal present. The country today often seems

Valentine’s Day diary from Ukraine

February 14, 2023

By Brooks Newmark I have ended up on February 14 in Odesa, an old port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. My wife Lucy flew out from London to visit me a few days ago. Amazingly the Opera and Ballet Theatre House in Odesa has just reopened, so we are going to see La

Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church

January 06, 2023

The liturgical and spiritual patrimony of the historic Church of Kyiv, to which the Ukrainian and Russian Churches – both Catholic and Orthodox – are today’s heirs, embraces English speakers as well as the Ukrainian diaspora and others. And so for a decade I have lived richly as a priest with bi-ritual faculties, keeping two Holy Weeks, two Easters and two Christmases.

On the Seventh Day of Christmas: Lead, Kindly Light

December 31, 2022

Bohdan Mandziuk is a seminarian for the Ukrainian Eparchy of the Holy Family of London, and when war broke out was a student at the Three Holy Hierarchs Seminary on the outskirts of Kyiv. He is now continuing his studies at The International Theological Institute at Trumau, near Vienna. It was in 1833 that a