Sheptytsky Beatification Process Moves Forward Ukrainian Insurgent
INSIDE:• UPA veterans give accounts of their experiences — page 3. • Ukrainian American’s story of moving to Ukraine — page 12. • Conference focuses on Ukrainian folk life — page 13. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine SheptytskyT beatificationU process moves forward Ukrainian InsurgentW Army veterans Religious Information Service of Ukraine means that, after appropriate positive assessment of the status of the historical mark anniversary of its founding KYIV – The most recent session of credibility and authenticity of the docu- the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian mentary materials gathered during the Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) report- long-lasting beatification process (on the ed that the beatification process for basis of archival documents and eyewit- Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the UGCC from 1901 to 1944, is ness testimonies), the cause itself has moving forward in Rome. passed to the competency of those hold- Father Roman Terekhovskyi of the ing governing positions in the Roman UGCC’s Postulation Center, the vice-postu- Congregation for the Causes of Saints, lator for Metropolitan Sheptytsky’s cause, who should in an appropriate way assess commented on the latest developments, not- also the quality of the facts gathered in ing that Sheptytsky’s cause has gone to the this cause,” said Father Terekhovskyi. Vatican’s Theological Commission. According to Father Terekhovskyi, after UGCC Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, the commission confirms the fact of the head of the Synod’s Committee on metropolitan’s heroic virtues (de heroicitate Beatification and Canonization, said that virtutibus) throughout his life, his faith and this is a great step toward beatifying service to God and neighbor, his official Metropolitan Sheptytsky.
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