Ukrainian Catholic leader: nation’s Christian culture challenges EU’s secularism

June 10, 2015

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said that the nation’s Christian culture “may become a challenge for the awakening of secularized Europe.”

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told a Polish newspaper that “Ukraine rejects false values such as gender ideology, though it could be an obstacle to joining the European Union. But the EU is not Europe yet. The EU can exist without Ukraine, but Europe cannot exist without Ukraine, as it will be incomplete.”

“At the time when our homeland experiences aggression from the neighboring state’s military forces, when the war is waged and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are killed every day, of course we stand beside our people,” he added, according to the Religious Information Service of Ukraine. “The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has always been the teacher, the guardian, the guide, and the voice of truth for our people.”

 

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Further information:

• “Christian Ukraine May Become Challenge for Secularized Europe,” Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk Says (RISU)