Ukrainian Catholic leader decries abortion, gender ideology
January 13, 2016
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church—the largest of the Eastern Catholic churches—said in a recent homily that abortion has killed “ten times more” persons over the last two years than has the war in the eastern part of his nation.
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“How many new ‘Herods’ there are today, who not only kill children after their birth, but have gone further … there are so many unborn children [killed] today,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk preached on January 8, the second day of the Christmas season in the Julian calendar.
Referring to a “new danger of a new enslavement of Ukrainian people,” he said that “this danger is called gender ideology … Pope Benedict XVI said this ideology is very similar to previous ones that were destroying states, nations.”
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