” ““The memory of what happened sixty years ago must boost” the community entrusted to the Greek-Catholic Churchh in Ukraine “to strengthen their deep and fervent relations with the successor of Peter”. This was written by Pope Benedict XVI in a letter sent on February 22nd, which had not been published before, to card. Lubomyr Husar, High Archbishop of Kyiv-Halic. The message was written by the Pope to “commemorate reads a release from the Holy See the sixtieth anniversary of the sad events that marked the life of the Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine following the pseudo-synod of Lviv in March 1946, during which a group of priests claimed the right to represent the Church, seriously attacking the unity of the Church and forcing the Greek-Catholic Church to go down again into the catacombs. “From that Church, purified by persecution wrote the Pope, flowed rivers of live water, not only for the Ukrainian Catholics but for the whole Catholic Church across the world”. (to be continued)
