{"id":29415,"date":"2013-11-23T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T20:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29415"},"modified":"2020-12-15T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:21:14","slug":"ecumenism-from-the-bottom-up-svjatoslav-shevchuk-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/ecumenism-from-the-bottom-up-svjatoslav-shevchuk-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecumenism from the bottom up, Sviatoslav Shevchuk advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Svjatoslav-Shevchuk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29416 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Svjatoslav-Shevchuk.jpg\" alt=\"Svjatoslav Shevchuk\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Svjatoslav-Shevchuk.jpg 250w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Svjatoslav-Shevchuk-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>You will think I am silly for saying this, but who cares: I think that Archbishop\u00a0Sviatoslav Shevchuk is a good man for Christ&#8217;s Church.<\/p>\n<p>Who is\u00a0Archbishop\u00a0Sviatoslav Shevchuk you ask? Please recall that he is the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (a major archbishop is the equivalent of a patriarch in church law without the title of patriarch).<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now 43 and he&#8217;s been a priest for nearly 20 years, a bishop for nearly 5 years and he&#8217;s been the head of the largest Eastern Catholic Church for the since March 2011. Shevchuk is a man to watch. I just hope he&#8217;s not going to cave the to bourgeois mentality which afflicts many ecclesiastics.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop is in Rome now for a month for a series of meeting, not least was the recent meeting of the Plenary of the Congregation for Eastern Churches and a meeting with the Holy Father and other Eastern Catholic Patriarchs. Using his time wisely, the archbishop spoke with Andrea Tornielli of the <em>Vatican Insider<\/em> (who is a friend of Pope Francis); Tornielli&#8217;s interview, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/vaticaninsider.lastampa.it\/en\/inquiries-and-interviews\/detail\/articolo\/ecumenismo-ecumenism-ecumenismo-29899\/\"><strong>Ecumenism from the bottom up: Now Vatican II is coming into effect<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the Tornielli interview you&#8217;ll read about his connection with Pope Francis, the desire of the faithful for a deeper unity (a ecumenism that&#8217;s full &amp; visible) and note of contrast on marriage between the churches. Perhaps you&#8217;ll learn something. I did.\u00a0You don&#8217;t have to agree with everything the interview reveals, but you would be wise to read carefully and between the lines.<\/p>\n<p>To get a flavor of this young Father of the Church, please read and watch the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/saltandlighttv.org\/blog\/special-events\/ukrainian-patriarch-encourages-bishops-to-speak-the-truth-of-the-gospel-with-courage\"><strong>the 2012 address at the plenary session<\/strong><\/a> of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/saltandlighttv.org\/blog\/special-events\/ukrainian-patriarch-encourages-bishops-to-speak-the-truth-of-the-gospel-with-courage\"><strong>23 September 2012 interview<\/strong><\/a> with Father Thomas Rosica for Salt + Light TV.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will think I am silly for saying this, but who cares: I think that Archbishop\u00a0Sviatoslav Shevchuk is a good man for Christ&#8217;s Church. Who is\u00a0Archbishop\u00a0Sviatoslav Shevchuk you ask? Please recall that he is the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (a major archbishop is the equivalent of a patriarch in church law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/ecumenism-from-the-bottom-up-svjatoslav-shevchuk-advocates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ecumenism from the bottom up, Sviatoslav Shevchuk advocates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1712,2716,2717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36166,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions\/36166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}