Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Ukrainian Patriarch Complains about Catholic Cathedral Being Built

Editor: The double-standard continues. The Orthodox build churches in Catholic areas all the time and do so with impunity.

Odessa, September 27, Interfax - The Odessa Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church believes there is no grounds for building a Greek Catholic cathedral in the city and such plans have aggressive political backgrounds.

"It's quite evident that there's no ground for building a Greek Catholic church in Odessa. Odessa is an Orthodox city," the diocesan secretary Archpriest Andrey Novikov told Interfax-Religion on Monday.

According to the priest, initiators of the building have their own aim - proselytism, converting Orthodox believers in Unia.

"There is no visible presence of Greek Catholics in Odessa. Whom uniate preachers are going to attract to their parish? Certainly Orthodox Odessites - they will try to catch them in networks of Unia through various intricacies," the interviewee of the agency said.


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2 comments:

Badger Catholic said...

I hope our Holy Father can establish a better relationship with the East so that these kinds of attitudes can be forgotten in the past...

Giovanni A. Cattaneo said...

The Orthodox always want to have their cake and eat it too.