On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Catholic bishops of the U.S. said “the people of God resist, trust, and pray” despite the “countless deaths and millions of casualties” the brutal conflict has claimed in 12 years of warfare.
In the spotlight: St. John Vianney relics, California wildfire, Kentucky floods, Mexico’s flower-laden feast
Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of the Latin-rite Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia has said his faithful have access only to Eastern-right liturgies since Russian-backed separatists of have barred Latin-rite Catholic clergy from their territory.
The Russian Orthodox patriarch recently consecrated a church memorializing those martyred during communism’s reign.
