Source: VIS Vatican City, 20 February 2015 (VIS) – “I welcome you to this house, which is also yours. And you are well aware of this, as the Successor of Peter has always welcomed his brothers from Ukraine with fraternal friendship”, begins the Pope’s...
By Laura Ieraci Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the Ukrainian Catholic bishops met in a private audience with Pope Francis Feb. 20, Ukraine was marking its first Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes, commemorating those who died in the Euromaidan...
Source: Catholic Herald by Laura Ieraci Ukrainian Catholic bishops have come to Rome to tell Pope Francis “the truth” about the war in their country after complaints by some Ukranians that the Holy See was being influenced by Russian propaganda. The head of the...
The Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate will be celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the founding of their religious congregation in 2017. Sr. Patricia Lacey, ssmi, Provincial Superior, notified Bishop David of a specially commissioned pilgrimage icon of Blessed...
Source: ssmi.org The Birth of Our Congregation As a young woman of Lviv, Ukraine, Michaelina Hordashevska experienced a call to the religious life and searched for a way to respond. Privately, she sought spiritual direction from Father Jeremiah Lomnitskyj, OSBM, and...
